How to detect app crashes

[Samuel_Sanchez]

Our app uses ReactNative. One thing we are trying to figure out is how to report app crashes.
A path we are taking is to write our own turbo module that would expose this information.

My question is, is there a way to know or a location to look at for such crash reports, at run time.
The idea is to test, on app launch, if an app crashed prior.

[amen]

Hi @Samuel_Sanchez,

Thank you for your patience, and for the interesting use case - building runtime crash detection for a React Native app on Vega is a great goal.

Vega OS offers the following crash reporting options:

• ACR (Aggregated Crash Report) files – auto-generated on device when your app crashes. You can retrieve and symbolicate these via Vega Studio or the CLI:
  • Symbolicate App Crash Reports ( Symbolicate App Crash Reports | Design and Develop Vega Apps )
  • Detect Where the App Crash Originates ( Detect Where the App Crash Originates | Design and Develop Vega Apps )
  • Debug Crashes with ACR Summary ( Debug Crashes with ACR Summary | Design and Develop Vega Apps )
  • AI Assisted Crash Analysis ( AI Assisted Crash Analysis | Design and Develop Vega Apps ) - also available via the @amazon-devices/amazon-devices-buildertools-mcp package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@amazon-devices/amazon-devices-buildertools-mcp
• App Health Insights Dashboard – available in the Developer Console, tracking crash rates, ANR rates, and crash counts across app versions and devices: App Health Insights Dashboard | Revenue Reports and Promotions

There is currently no built-in Vega API to programmatically detect at launch whether a previous crash occurred. However, a third-party option worth considering is integrating an SDK such as Sentry, New Relic, or Bugsnag - these provide app-side crash reporting that can be consumed at runtime.

We appreciate your work on the Vega platform and hope this helps move things forward.

Warm regards,
Aishwarya

[Samuel_Sanchez]

We are moving away from sentry. We are using DataDog. We are able to capture ‘app side’ js style crashing, just not actual app crashing.

[prrajan]

Hi Samuel, Datadog SDK is work-in-progress. We will get in touch with you directly.