use a crash report/logging provider or library

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A quick google search yields services like HockeyApp or the Mobile Center SDK. Does anyone have experience with these, or similar solutions?

cc @golf1052, @SERVCUBED

Crash Reports

HockeyApp

• should be able to send stacktraces and additional information

Mobile Center SDK

• cannot send crash reports on UWP yet (wtf?)
• should be free if we only use crash reports
• should support asking for user approval out of the box
• should be able to attach 1 text and 1 binary file

[SERVCUBED]

I agree we definitely need some form of telemetry. I have had some experience with Microsoft's Application Insights and I'm looking into HockeyApp now.

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I have added basic logging to the most frequent code paths in libsignal-service-dotnet, and we can add handlers to it in Signal-Windows. Right now one is printing every log event, but it should be easy to add ring-buffered logs in memory or to save them on disk.

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I tested AppCenterSDK, but their crash reports don't work reliably and they do not (yet) support attaching logfiles.