From the sounds of it you need to further your knowledge, beats having
good
tools ya dont know how to use.

Amen to that. One needs, at least, a system view to isolate problems. You
must understand (to be at all efficient) what each stage is doing (as
perhaps opposed to what it is supposed to do), what the input to a given
stage is and where it comes from, what the output from a given stage is
supposed to be and where it goes. Then, feedback often makes the whole mess
deeper and much more murky!

Tools allow you to observe the system but will never, by themselves, help
you understand it.