Correlations in crash reports

[Gabriele Svelto]

[cross-posting to dev-platform and crash-reporting-wg]

Hiya all,
as part of the work to overhaul our crash reporting infrastructure we
were trying to figure out how the correlations data is being used by
developers and triagers when looking at crash reports. In particular we
would like to know:
- Which entries do you find more useful and why? (e.g. reason, DLLs, OS
version, graphics driver version, etc...)
- Do you look only at the top entries or do you also find the weaker
correlations useful?
- Last but not least, do you look at correlations involving two fields
at the same time and if yes what's your use-case for them?

Thank you all,

Gabriele

[Nick Alexander]

Hi Gabriele,

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 5:38 AM 'Gabriele Svelto' via dev-pl...@mozilla.org <dev-pl...@mozilla.org> wrote:

[cross-posting to dev-platform and crash-reporting-wg]

   Hiya all,
as part of the work to overhaul our crash reporting infrastructure we
were trying to figure out how the correlations data is being used by
developers and triagers when looking at crash reports. In particular we
would like to know:
- Which entries do you find more useful and why? (e.g. reason, DLLs, OS
version, graphics driver version, etc...)

On Android, I've used OS version and device correlations recently.

 

- Do you look only at the top entries or do you also find the weaker
correlations useful?

Top entries.

 

- Last but not least, do you look at correlations involving two fields
at the same time and if yes what's your use-case for them?

Not yet.

Nick

[Chris H-C]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM 'Gabriele Svelto' via stab...@mozilla.org <stab...@mozilla.org> wrote:

[cross-posting to dev-platform and crash-reporting-wg]

   Hiya all,
as part of the work to overhaul our crash reporting infrastructure we
were trying to figure out how the correlations data is being used by
developers and triagers when looking at crash reports. In particular we
would like to know:
- Which entries do you find more useful and why? (e.g. reason, DLLs, OS
version, graphics driver version, etc...)

- Do you look only at the top entries or do you also find the weaker
correlations useful?

It's been a while, but I remember that I tend to stop after OS either confirms or refutes that it's platform-specific.

 

- Last but not least, do you look at correlations involving two fields
at the same time and if yes what's your use-case for them?

Haven't yet.

 

Thank you all,

  Gabriele

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