Breakpad

Breakpad Integration into Mozilla

Breakpad is a set of libraries for client-side crash reporting. This page talks about integrating breakpad with Mozilla products. Breakpad was formerly called airbag. The libraries are being developed as a narrowly scoped Google code project. The breakpad libraries do not provide any crash-reporting UI, nor do they provide a server.

Our implementation has three parts:

• Client integration to handle crash reporting so a central server can aggregate crash data to help improve our products.
• A server that collects and processes collected crash data and uses a symbol server to convert raw dumps into readable stack traces. The processor can insert the resulting data into a database.
• A web interface for viewing and parsing crash reports, called Socorro.

More information, source code, and mailing lists for breakpad library development can be found at the Breakpad Project Site.

Pages

• How to update the Breakpad snapshot in mozilla-central to the latest Breakpad code in SVN
• Breakpad/Design (Design and planning information)
• Status Meetings (Agendas/Minutes)
• Current Implementation -- The status of what has been implemented so far.
• Feature List -- What do we want our Breakpad web interface to do?
• SkipList -- How to file a SkipList bug

Integration Team

The following people are actively working on Breakpad integration:

• luser (client and build systems, minidump_stackwalk)
• lars (server, python, middleware)
• ozten (server, middleware, materialized views, front end)
• ryan snyder (webUI, front end, JS)
• chowse (UX)
• aravind (IT)
• jabba (IT)
• deinspanjer (hbase lead, hadoop admin)
• stephend, vish_moz, automatedtester (WebQA/automation)
• choffman
• laura (project)
• jberkus (PostgreSQL, performance)

Contact the team at socorro-dev@mozilla.com