# Crash Reporting

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/crash-reporting/13538
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/crash-reporting/13538 "2019-07-25T17:31:18Z")
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### Author: ![Nummer378](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/nummer378/32/5958_2.png) [@Nummer378](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nummer378)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/crash-reporting/13538/3 "2019-07-25T20:18:23Z")

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> [@\[Poll\] The sending of crash data](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/poll-the-sending-of-crash-data/13292):
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> We will be including crash reporting soon. The way it will work is that when a crash (“panic” usually, in Go parlance) is detected the Syncthing version and backtrace is reported to some server, where it’s stored and aggregated. The data that will be sent looks like this: 07:48:24 INFO: syncthing v1.1.4 "Erbium Earthworm" (go1.12.5 darwin-amd64) teamcity@build.sycnthing 2019-05-21 20:36:38 UTC Panic at 2019-05-22T07:48:25+02:00 panic: interface conversion: \*pfilter.FilteredConn is not net.Conn:…

> [@Automatic crash reporting](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/automatic-crash-reporting/13481):
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> Can we talk about this? Can we make it opt-in instead of opt-out? Can we have the election put on the settings page instead of the advanced configuration page? I’m happy to regularly answer questionnaires–I just don’t want developers (or anyone else) under my hood, if I can avoid it. Crossing my fingers…

> [@Crashlog/Automatic error log sending to dev. team #959](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/crashlog-automatic-error-log-sending-to-dev-team-959/13451):
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> Hi, The [changelog](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases) tells us about the new enhancement Automatic error log sending to dev. team While this is probably great for the devs, as a user, I’m missing a way to see what precise content and when logs were sent. I remember reading the docs a month ago or so, ([https://docs.syncthing.net/users/crashrep.html](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/crashrep.html) + [https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/crashrep.html#crashrep-dev](https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/crashrep.html#crashrep-dev)) where we all can read a generic text, what could be send off our machines to the devs, but how can we take a look at the d…

Basically, just leave it on (dismiss the message).

There’s currently a possiblity that a crash report includes minor personal data (e.g folder names), but the team is working on removing that, so that crash reports are free of any non-development data (see [here](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/5839) for details).

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