Question: I would like to connect to my node server running in debug mode on AWS (node --debug app.js) from my development machine, and be able to debug my app remotely.

Two questions:

* Can I do this with node-inspector? I wish I could, but node-inspector fails to install on my AWS instance.
* Any alternatives that will allow me to do this?

Answer: 
Forward remote debugger port with ssh from your dev machine

```
ssh -L 5858:127.0.0.1:5858 ubuntu@some.ec2.host.com

```

And now you can start `node-inspector` as if the debugger is running locally.
Also you can specify `--web-host` argument.

```
node-inspector --web-host host.amazonaws.com

```