Communicating issues to developers

If you are running nonstable versions of Nginx for trial or using your own or third-party modules for Nginx, your instance might occasionally experience crashes. If you decide to communicate these issues to developers, here is a guide that will help you to do it most efficiently.

Developers usually don't have access to production systems, but knowing the environment your Nginx instance is running in is crucial to trace the cause of the problem.

Therefore, you need to provide detailed information about the issue. Detailed information about a crash can be found in the core file that was created after the crash.

Note

Warning!

The core file contains a memory dump of a worker process at the moment of a crash and therefore ...

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