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panicparse

Parses panic stack traces, densifies and deduplicates goroutines with similar stack traces. Helps debugging crashes and deadlocks in heavily parallelized process.

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Features

  • 50% more compact output than original stack dump yet more readable.

  • Exported symbols are bold, private symbols are darker.
  • Stdlib is green, main is yellow, rest is red.
  • Deduplicate redundant goroutine stacks. Useful for large server crashes.
  • Arguments as pointer IDs instead of raw pointer values.
  • Pushes stdlib-only stacks at the bottom to help focus on important code.
  • Usable as a library!
  • Works on Windows.

Installation

go get github.com/maruel/panicparse/cmd/pp

Usage

Piping a stack trace from another process

TL;DR

  • Ubuntu (bash v4 or zsh): |&
  • OSX, install bash 4+, then: |&
  • Windows or OSX with stock bash v3: 2>&1 |
  • Fish shell: ^|

Longer version

pp streams its stdin to stdout as long as it doesn't detect any panic. panic() and Go's native deadlock detector print to stderr via the native print() function.

Bash v4 or zsh: |& tells the shell to redirect stderr to stdout, it's an alias for 2>&1 | (bash v4, zsh):

go test -v |&pp

Windows or OSX native bash (which is 3.2.57): They don't have this shortcut, so use the long form:

go test -v 2>&1 | pp

Fish: It uses ^ for stderr redirection so the shortcut is ^|:

go test -v ^|pp

PowerShell: It has broken 2>&1 redirection. The workaround is to shell out to cmd.exe. :(

Investigate deadlock

On POSIX, use Ctrl-\ to send SIGQUIT to your process, pp will ignore the signal and will parse the stack trace.

Parsing from a file

To dump to a file then parse, pass the file path of a stack trace

go test 2> stack.txt
pp stack.txt

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Updating bash on OSX

Install bash v4+ on OSX via homebrew or macports. Your future self will appreciate having done that.

If you have /usr/bin/pp installed

You may have the Perl PAR Packager installed. Use long name panicparse then;

go get github.com/maruel/panicparse

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