Monitor failures and errors in real time for your mobile application
After your application is in use by thousands of users, it's likely to have bugs. Your users might run into unexpected application failures. From the user perspective, all they want is a working and reliable application. Applications that are buggy and fail don't provide a good user experience. Disappointed users will uninstall the app, leave a bad review, or publicly criticize and complain about their experience.
Understanding real-world failure behavior is essential for mobile applications. Your job as a developer isn't finished as soon as you release to app stores. It's important to continuously monitor and measure performance to ensure app stability and maintain user satisfaction. What you need is a way to monitor your application. You need to understand what happened when something goes wrong so that you can prioritize and fix issues that are critical for your business needs.
Importance of failure monitoring
As a developer, you need to:
- Know details about the health of your application and how it's performing for users.
- Find the root cause and reasons why and where the failure occurred on a user's device.
- Be proactive to triage issues and resolve failures to make your application stable.
- Build better applications and iterate faster to provide a great user experience so that users continue to use your application.
Take advantage of the following service to monitor your application for failures, diagnose issues, and quickly fix them to provide a stable and high-quality mobile application experience.
Visual Studio App Center
The App Center Diagnostics service helps you monitor the health of your application. It provides detailed insights so that you can understand what happened and why the application failed. App Center Diagnostics also helps you prioritize and manage failure reports.
Visual Studio App Center features
- Real-time, automatic failures and errors, smartly grouped, to highlight the most severe issues and relevant information you need.
- Complete stack traces and device data that provide context and clarity to help you identify the root cause.
- Powerful search feature to help you find the issues you care about the most.
- Analytics integration so that you can understand your users' behaviors and see events leading up to a failure.
- Custom properties, user ID, and attachments so that you can add more context to help diagnose your issues.
- Alerting, notifications, and bug tracker integrations so that you can stay on top of new and unexpected failures that affect your users.
- Single, one-liner SDK integration to get started using this service within minutes.
- Platform support for iOS, Android, macOS, tvOS, Xamarin, React Native, Unity, Cordova, WPF, and WinForms.