Analyzer go-core-dump-analysis

Name

go-core-dump-analysis - Go Application Core Dump Analysis

This analyzer performs post-mortem analysis of Go application core dumps using GDB. It extracts goroutine states, stack traces, and runtime information from crashed processes. The analyzer helps diagnose fatal errors, understand crash contexts, and investigate production incidents by examining the application state at the moment of failure.

Resource Category

Miscellaneous.

Application Type & Technical Stack

  • Go

Command Line Syntax

The analyzer can be invoked directly on the command-line via the orxray utility from the openresty-xray-cli software package.

Alternatively, the analyzer can also be invoked manually or automatically on the web console UI of OpenResty XRay (like on the Advanced web page).

# PID is the target process PID.
orxray analyzer run go-core-dump-analysis -p PID

# trace a shell command directly
orxray analyzer run go-core-dump-analysis -c SHELL_CMD

# PGID is the process group ID or any process's PID within the target process
# group.
orxray analyzer run go-core-dump-analysis -p -PGID

# trace any processes started from the specified executable path.
orxray analyzer run go-core-dump-analysis --exe /path/to/exe/file

Tracing Multiple Processes

Supported.

Output Formats

  • Plain Texts

Author

The OpenResty Inc. Team.

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