Appcenter: Filter diagnostics data by build number

[winnie]

In App Center Diagnostics today, users can filter crash and error groups by recent versions but not by build number. Many developers, especially those with large apps, have multiple builds per versions and need a way to filter this data to help prioritize their most important and relevant issues.

This feature will allow users to filter their diagnostics data by selecting a version and build number as shown in the mockup below:

[transis2]

waiting for this...

[winnie]

We had to delay this feature due to other priorities but we should have this completed by the end of the month. Thanks for your patience!

[WCByrne]

Would love to see this for analytics as well. Should I create a separate issue?

[winnie]

@WCByrne we're actually building this for analytics too! I'll update the issue to reflect that. Should be enabled today or tomorrow so keep an eye out :)

[lumaxis]

Since I talked to @schriftgestalt who requested thiamin #371 too, a quick update: We hit a small road bump while working on implementing this but we‘re still looking to releasing the feature soon 🙂

[winnie]

This feature is now enabled for diagnostics! The build dropdown filter will populate as new crashes come in. Unfortunately, we ran into some difficulties for Analytics so we had to scope this out for now. We don't have immediate plans to enable this for Analytics but feel free to create a separate issue to track this feature.

Thanks!

[schriftgestalt]

Unfortunately the "Build" dropdown only shows "All" for me.

It still works fine in Hockeyapp so I would think everything is configured correctly on my end.

[transis2]

the "Build" dropdown only shows "All" for me too.

[florianbuerger]

Same issue for me (Safari & Chrome). If I set a build number in the URL it works—only crashes from that build are shown. Seems the issue only affects the UI.

[winnie]

Apologies for the delay. We have two known limitations on our end:

1. The Build dropdown is only populated if the analytics SDK module is integrated
2. The Build dropdown is only populated with build numbers that have new crashes since we launched this feature

I'm working to get these issues prioritized and fixed. Thanks for everyone's patience!

[schriftgestalt]

This is still not working for me. It still looks like in the post from @florianbuerger.

I don’t like to add "analytics SDK module" to my app (as suggested by the last post).

So this issue doesn't seem to be fixed.

[schriftgestalt]

anyone?

[transis2]

Hi @schriftgestalt,

You need to publish a diferent version number to use this filter.

[schriftgestalt]

I have published a dozen new versions in the last two weeks.

One thing that might be a problem is that I didn’t move the app to Appcenter. I’ll like to see that everything works before I switch over for good.

[transis2]

You need first select version number, and after that build filter will be populated

[schriftgestalt]

I tried that.

[winnie]

Hey @schriftgestalt apologies for missing your initial comment. At this time, you'll need to integrate our analytics SDK to use the build filter. Unfortunately we haven't had a chance to remove this dependency but I'll post here if I have any updates.

[schriftgestalt]

I’m not sure what the analytics sdk is doing in detail but I don’t like to add it just to get this totally unrelated feature to work.

[fernandotcl]

Hi @winnieli1, is there an issue tracking the progress of removing this silly dependency? I don't know if I'm more amused or annoyed.

[winnie]

Hi @schriftgestalt @fernandotcl, just want to let you know we recently removed the Analytics SDK dependency for the build number filter in Diagnostics. Thanks for your patience!

[schriftgestalt]

This works now. Thanks a lot.