Crashlytics
Mobile crash reporting software
Application development software
Mobile development software
Mobile analytics software
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What is Crashlytics
Crashlytics is a mobile crash reporting and stability monitoring tool used to detect, triage, and diagnose app crashes and non-fatal errors in production. It is commonly implemented by mobile engineering teams to understand crash frequency, affected devices/OS versions, and the code paths leading to failures. The product is delivered as part of Google’s Firebase platform and integrates with mobile SDKs and common developer workflows.
Real-time crash visibility
Crashlytics captures crash and non-fatal exception events from deployed mobile apps and surfaces them in a centralized console. It groups issues to reduce duplicate noise and helps teams focus on the highest-impact problems. Dashboards and alerting support operational monitoring for releases and regressions.
Rich diagnostic context
The product provides stack traces and device/OS metadata to support root-cause analysis. Teams can add custom keys and logs to attach app-specific context to crash reports. This helps correlate failures with user flows, feature flags, or configuration states without requiring full session replay tooling.
Firebase ecosystem integration
Crashlytics integrates with other Firebase services and Google tooling commonly used in mobile development. This can simplify setup for teams already using Firebase SDKs and authentication, analytics, or release workflows. Consolidating crash reporting within the same platform can reduce vendor sprawl and administrative overhead.
Limited beyond mobile focus
Crashlytics primarily targets mobile crash reporting rather than broad application error monitoring across many runtimes. Organizations needing a single platform for mobile, backend, and web error tracking may require additional tools. This can complicate cross-system incident triage and end-to-end tracing.
Less suited for replay analytics
Crashlytics focuses on crash and exception diagnostics rather than full behavioral analytics or session replay. Teams that need visual reproduction of user sessions, UI interaction timelines, or heatmaps typically use separate products. This can increase integration work when combining stability data with UX investigation.
Platform dependency and lock-in
Because Crashlytics is delivered within Firebase, adoption often aligns with broader Firebase usage patterns and SDK dependencies. Migrating away can require SDK changes, event schema adjustments, and updates to alerting and reporting workflows. Data portability and historical comparisons may be more complex during transitions.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crashlytics (included with Firebase) | $0 — No cost | Crashlytics is provided at no charge; available on Firebase Spark (free) and Blaze (pay-as-you-go) plans. Starts capturing crashes out of the box, integrates with Android, iOS, Flutter, and Unity, supports custom logs and custom keys (logs limited to 64 kB; max 64 custom key-value pairs). AI assistance features may have separate Gemini-related quotas/pricing. |
Seller details
Google LLC
Mountain View, CA, USA
1998
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https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm
https://x.com/googlecloud
https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/
