https://siedentop.dev/tags/modern-development/ Recent content in Modern Development on Posts about Software Development Hugo en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:08:35 -0700 https://siedentop.dev/posts/sentry-cpp/ Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:08:35 -0700 https://siedentop.dev/posts/sentry-cpp/ <h1 id="crash-reporting">Crash Reporting</h1> <p>If your program is running on more than one machine or is used by others, you probably want to get some insight into when things fail. I believe this is commonly called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_reporter">&ldquo;Crash Reporting&rdquo;</a>.</p> <p>Such a crash reporting system will consist of a component to collect individual incidents and of a component to aggregate individual reports. For example, it will group common incidents by stack trace.</p> <p>One public example of this, is Mozilla&rsquo;s system (<em>Socorro</em>). Have a look <a href="https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/">here for statistics</a> on all of Mozilla&rsquo;s projects. Or here, for just the <a href="https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/topcrashers/?product=Firefox&amp;version=79.0a1">top ten Firefox crashes</a> from a specific version:</p>