# google/breakpad

Mirror of Google Breakpad project

Repository: https://github.com/google/breakpad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/breakpad
Homepage: https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: breakpad, google-breakpad
Last push: 2026-08-11T17:49:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3838, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2900, forks 786 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:28.869274+00:00)

## What it is
Google Breakpad is a set of client and server components implementing a crash-reporting system for native applications. It captures minidump crash files on Linux, macOS, and Windows and provides tools like minidump_stackwalk and dump_syms to process them into readable stack traces.

## Use cases
- capture crash dumps from a native C++ application in production
- generate readable stack traces from minidump files
- add crash reporting to a cross-platform desktop app
- symbolicate crash reports with dump_syms
- debug crashes on Linux, macOS, and Windows

## When to choose
- you need battle-tested crash reporting for native C/C++ apps across Linux, macOS, and Windows
- you want to process minidumps offline into stack traces
- you are building a Chromium-based or Mozilla-style crash reporting pipeline

## When to avoid
- you need a hosted crash-reporting service with a dashboard out of the box
- you want modern alternatives like Crashpad or Sentry native SDKs
- your project is not native code (e.g., pure web or managed runtime)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, error-handling, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform, performance
- platform: windows, cpp, cross-platform
- tags: crash-reporting, minidump, stack-walking, crash-dumps, debugging, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- google/breakpad (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:28.869274+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:35:10.757819+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/breakpad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:28.869274+00:00, sha 1e9bc519e562)
  - homepage: https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:53.316169+00:00, sha a498819e63de)
  - site_page: https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/HEAD/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:53.325454+00:00, sha b53a08e325de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.