[QGIS-Developer] Sentry support for QGIS crashes / minidumps

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Tim,

I added a crash handler in 3.0 for Windows at least and it lead to a few
good fixes.  I will checkout the stuff you posted to see if we can
intergrate it into what I already have there.

Nathan

On Thu, 3 May 2018, 4:43 pm Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
>
> For many years we have used sentry (http://sentry.io) in our python
> projects to systematically collect, review and prioritise issues raised in
> our python projects. Sentry.io is open source (plus they offer a
> commercially hosted service). At Kartoza we run our own instance under
> docker / rancher.
>
> In the last Nødebo hackfest, we discussed the possibility of using
> something like Sentry for QGIS so that we could better understand where our
> users encounter crashes and proactively fix them. I subsequently went and
> researched whether Sentry.io has support for mini dumps / c++ crash
> handling and at the time it did not have so I parked thinking about it
> there.
>
> Yesterday I got a sentry updates newsletter and noticed that they have now
> added C++  support (currently in beta):
>
> https://blog.sentry.io/2018/04/17/introducing-minidump-support
>
> I know I am not alone when I run training courses offering this advice:
> “Save your project regularly, QGIS will probably crash at some point”. I
> really hate saying that but we have never had a systematic way of seeing
> where QGIS is crashing for our users and fixing this crash points. As we
> lead up to 3.4 LTR later this year, having good crash metrics and fixing
> the most common crash points will allow us to have a release that we can be
> confident works well for our users with out crashing during trivial
> operations.
>
> Perhaps one of our fine developers might like to pitch this as a QGIS
> Grant proposal (submission period closes 13 May 2018)?
>
>
> http://blog.qgis.org/2018/04/15/qgis-grants-3-call-for-grant-proposals-2018/
>
> I’d be happy to help set up our own sentry.io instance on QGIS
> infrastructure. We could also use that instance to receive tracebacks from
> the python bits of our code….
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
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