5. Crashdump Viewer

5 Crashdump Viewer

5.1 Introduction

The Crashdump Viewer is a WxWidgets based tool for browsing Erlang crashdumps.

5.2 Getting Started

The easiest way to start Crashdump Viewer is to use shell script cdv with the full path to the Erlang crashdump as argument. The script is located in directory priv of the Observer application. This starts the Crashdump Viewer GUI and loads the specified file. If no filename is specified, a file dialog is opened where the file can be selected.

Under Windows, the batch file cdv.bat can be used.

Crashdump Viewer can also be started from an Erlang node by calling crashdump_viewer:start/0 or crashd