Breakpad vs BugSplat

Breakpad is a free library and tool suite for capturing application crashes in compact minidump files and converting them into readable C and C++ stack traces. Its client can write a dump when a crash happens or when an application requests one. A symbol dumper converts compiler debugging information, including DWARF, STABS, and Windows PDB files, into Breakpad symbol files; a processor combines those symbols with dumps to produce traces. The sender can transmit dumps and application-defined key-value parameters to a crash server in a multipart HTTP POST request, with HTTPS supported. Developers provide the server and keep symbol files where the processor can access them. Documentation describes integration on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with Android also listed among the platforms. Windows out-of-process dump generation needs a separately run crash generation server. On Linux, crash callbacks should do little because application state may be unsafe; the client design also cautions against heap use and resource allocation after an exception. The project is hosted in the Chromium source repository and lists separate discussion and development mailing lists. The free plan costs nothing.

BugSplat captures, symbolicates, and groups crashes, errors, and other issues so development teams can examine and prioritize them. Reports can include call stacks, thread state, memory, operating system, GPU, build version, and user impact. Grouping weights issues by volume, bringing those affecting more users higher in the list, and stability tracking flags regressions across releases. Listed integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, Azure DevOps, Discord, Monday, and Teams. It supports desktop, cross-platform, game, mobile, and web development, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. BugSplat has a free plan at free, with three logins, 100GB storage, 15,000 crashes per month, and one-month retention. Team costs $37 a month, billed annually, and provides 10 logins, 250GB storage, 25,000 crashes per month, and three-month retention. A 14-day full-featured trial requires no credit card. BugSplat states it is SOC 2 Type II audited and GDPR compliant; listed security features include SSO, MFA, per-database access, and PII obfuscation.