Using the Diagnostics API
Important
Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025. While you can continue to use Visual Studio App Center until it is fully retired, there are several recommended alternatives that you may consider migrating to.
App Center Diagnostics supports multiple API functionalities listed under the crashes and errors section of the App Center swagger page. Read the App Center API Documentation to learn how to acquire an API token and make calls to the App Center API.
Note
The App Center Diagnostics API doesn't support CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing), so requests from clients which mandate this such as browsers will fail. To interact with the API from a browser, you can use a proxy service under your own domain which forwards requests to the App Center API.
Transitioning to the new APIs
With our App Center Diagnostics General Availability announcement last year and our UWP diagnostics improvements, we made some changes in our APIs to enable an improved backend pipeline to process your crashes and errors. Depending on which APIs you use, there might be some action required on your end to ensure a smooth transition.
There are three types of crashes APIs:
- Crashes APIs that map to new APIs
- Crashes APIs that no longer exist
- Crashes APIs that remain unaltered
Crashes APIs that map to new APIs
Old APIs listed in the crashes section are deprecated and have been removed. You must use the new diagnostics APIs as listed in the table below.
| Old Crashes APIs | New Crashes API |
|---|---|
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/retention_settings | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/retention_settings |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/versions | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/versions |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crashes/{crash_id}/attachments/{attachment_id}/text | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/{errorId}/attachments/{attachmentId}/text |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crashes/{crash_id}/attachments/{attachment_id}/location | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/{errorId}/attachments/{attachmentId}/location |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crashes/{crash_id}/attachments | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/{errorId}/attachments |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/stacktrace | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/stacktrace |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id}/stacktrace | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId}/stacktrace |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id}/native/download | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId}/download |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id} | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id} | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups |
| DELETE/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id} | DELETE 0.1/apps/{app_id}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId} |
| PATCH/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id | PATCH/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crashes_info | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crash_groups | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crash_counts | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errorCountsPerDay |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crash_counts | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorCountsPerDay |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/models | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/models |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/operating_systems | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/operatingSystems |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id}/raw/location | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId}/location |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/crash_groups/{crash_group_id}/crashes/{crash_id}/native | GET /v0.1/apps/{ownerName}/{appName}/errors/errorGroups/{errorGroupId}/errors/{errorId}/download?format=text" |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/analytics/crashfree_device_percentages | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/errors/errorfreeDevicePercentages |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_groups_info | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/diagnostics/symbol_groups_info |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_groups/{symbol_group_id} | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/diagnostics/symbol_groups/{symbol_group_id} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_groups | GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/diagnostics/symbol_groups |
Unaltered Crashes APIs
There are some crashes APIs that remain the same in the new pipeline. The following APIs will continue to work as expected and there isn't action needed at this time.
| Unaltered Crashes APIs |
|---|
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbols/{symbol_id}/status |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbols/{symbol_id}/location |
| POST/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbols/{symbol_id}/ignore |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbols/{symbol_id} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbols |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads/{symbol_upload_id}/location |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads/{symbol_upload_id} |
| PATCH/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads/{symbol_upload_id} |
| DELETE/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads/{symbol_upload_id} |
| GET/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads |
| POST/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/symbol_uploads |