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What is crash reporting?

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Summary

Crash reporting records an application’s state when its process terminates, typically through a handler that captures signals, threads, and register data before uploading the report on a later launch, while caught exceptions can be reported by still-running code. Native crash reports initially contain memory addresses and offsets, which require matching symbol files such as iOS dSYM bundles or Android ProGuard mappings to resolve them into meaningful source files and function names. Rollbar treats crashes as first-class occurrences alongside exceptions and logs, grouping them into project items and making raw crash data queryable through RQL via `body.crash_report.raw`. Its Apple SDK automatically detects crashes and exceptions across Apple platforms, and its symbol map API supports uploading files needed to translate raw stack frames into readable source-level information.

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