This document provides tips for debugging PHP Cake applications. It discusses using XDebug to trace code, view context and variable contents using debug() and var_dump(), and prevent errors from breaking production. It recommends using DebugKit, monitoring tools like Redis-live and Varnishstat, and notifying on errors. Verbose logging with sgLogMessage and unifying logs with Logstash are also covered. Finally, it discusses aggregating metrics with Graphite and Statsd.