Container Environments
How to use the Sentry Native SDK in container environments.
The Sentry Native SDK uses a database path to store events and crash reports. When you are using a containerized environment, you may want to mount a volume to persist the database across container restarts to avoid losing this data.
Starting with SDK version 0.8.3 for Linux and 0.8.6 for Windows, the option crashpad_wait_for_upload allows the application to wait for the crashpad_handler to finish before a shutdown-after-crash.
In SDK versions older than 0.8.3/0.8.6, you could use a script similar to the example below to tie container shutdown to the crashpad_handler process:
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#!/bin/bash
# ./execute-main-app
crashpad_timeout_s=10
crashpad_process_name=crashpad_handler
crashpad_pid=$(pgrep -n -f $crashpad_process_name)
if [ -n "$crashpad_pid" ]; then
echo "Waiting for crashpad to finish..."
timeout $crashpad_timeout_s tail --pid=$crashpad_pid -f /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 124 ]; then
echo "The crashpad process did not finish within $crashpad_timeout_s seconds"
else
echo "The crashpad process finished successfully"
fi
fi
on Linux, or for Windows PowerShell
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# Start-Process -FilePath ".\main-app.exe" -Wait
$crashpadTimeoutSec = 10
$crashpadProcessName = "crashpad_handler"
$crashpadProcess = Get-Process -Name $crashpadProcessName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Sort-Object StartTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1
if ($null -ne $crashpadProcess) {
Write-Output "Waiting for crashpad to finish..."
$finished = $crashpadProcess.WaitForExit($crashpadTimeoutSec * 1000)
if (-not $finished) {
Write-Output "The crashpad process did not finish within $crashpadTimeoutSec seconds"
} else {
Write-Output "The crashpad process finished successfully"
}
}
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