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The team behind the crash and error reporting tool BugSplat.
If you already have logging set up, it's fair to ask whether crash reporting is just the same thing with a nicer dashboard. It isn't. They solve different problems, they're strongest in different moments, and the best setup uses them together. Here's
The instinct, when you're a solo dev or a three-person team, is that crash reporting is enterprise stuff. Something for the studios with a hundred engineers and a dedicated ops team. You'll just deal with crashes when players email you about them. It's
Not the website. The crash. The one where your program is humming along and then dies instantly with no useful error, or on Windows, EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW and status code 0xC00000FD. Usually it means a function called itself one too many times. Sometimes it means you asked the stack to
Crashpad is the crash handler under a huge amount of native software you already use. It's Google's cross-platform crash reporting system, the successor to Breakpad, and it's what catches the crash, writes a minidump, and ships it somewhere useful on Windows, macOS, Linux,
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You know that macOS gives you crash logs. It does not give you a way to know that forty users hit the same crash last night, or which build it started in, or what your code was doing when it happened. The system writes a .crash file to a folder
