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title: "Charm Workshop: Debugging Juju Hooks\n    | Ubuntu"
description: 'In this charm school Charles Butler and Corey Johns go over the traditional
  way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Corey introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed
  to make debugging hooks much easier. Corey’s debug hook script, DHX, is available
  here: https://github.com/juju/plugins […]'
url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/charm-workshop-debugging-juju-hooks?format=md
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[Jorge O. Castro](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/jorge "More about Jorge O. Castro")

21 November 2014

# Charm Workshop: Debugging Juju Hooks

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In this charm school Charles Butler and Corey Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Corey introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier.

Corey’s debug hook script, DHX, is available here: [https://github.com/juju/plugins](https://github.com/juju/plugins "https://github.com/juju/plugins")

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