{"id":1146,"date":"2019-08-22T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:32:22","slug":"symbolicate-ios-app-analytics-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/symbolicate-ios-app-analytics-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolicate iOS App Analytics Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a crash happens in an app, and we get un-symbolicated logs from a remote user, we need to first symbolicate it in order to find out exact reason of the crash.<\/p>\n

We need following items in in order to symbolicate a crash log<\/p>\n

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  1. Log file – This file can be taken from the real device on which app crashed.<\/li>\n
  2. .app file – Download archive file (.ipa) to a folder and rename it to .zip. Unzip content and copy .app file.<\/li>\n
  3. dSYM File – This file can be retreived from the app ipa file. Open XCode -> Window -> Organizer -> Find the Archive file, right click on the Archive file and click “Show in Finder” which will open .xcarchive file in finder. Right click on .xcarchive and click “Show Package Contents”. Go to dSYMs folder\u00a0and copy dSYM file for the archive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Create a new folder on your mac and copy all three above files to this folder. We also need to copy\u00a0“symbolicatecrash” tool to this folder. In order to find\u00a0“symbolicatecrash” tool go to Finder -> Applications -> Right Click XCode and click “Show Package Contents” -> Go to “Contents” folder then go to SharedFrameworks ->\u00a0DVTFoundation.framework ->\u00a0 Versions\u00a0-> A\u00a0-> Resources -> Copy\u00a0“symbolicatecrash” tool and paste in your folder. Once we have all four files in the folder opne Terminal console and go to this folder in the console. Run following command<\/p>\n

    export DEVELOPER_DIR=\"\/Applications\/Xcode.app\/Contents\/Developer\"\r\n\r\n.\/symbolicatecrash -v MyAppLog.crash MyApp.app.dSYM<\/pre>\n
    MyAppLog.crash is our app\u00a0crash log file, MyApp.app.dSYM is the dSYM file.<\/p>\n
    Read further for more details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    When a crash happens in an app, and we get un-symbolicated logs from a remote user, we need to first symbolicate it in order to find out exact reason of the crash. We need following items in in order to symbolicate a crash log Log file – This file can be taken from the real device on which app crashed. .app file – Download archive file (.ipa) to a folder and rename it to .zip. Unzip content and copy .app file. dSYM File – This file can be retreived from the app ipa file. Open XCode -> Window -> Organizer -> Find the Archive file, right click on the Archive file and click “Show in Finder” which will open .xcarchive file in finder. Right click on .xcarchive and click “Show Package Contents”. Go to dSYMs folder\u00a0and copy dSYM file for the archive. Create a new folder on your mac and[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","category-ios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netexl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}