TRAFFIC_CRASHLOG(8)

💖 TRAFFIC_CRASHLOG 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for traffic_crashlog, section 8, and it lives in the Apache Traffic Server house 🏠✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

traffic_crashlog — the Traffic Server crash log helper 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

traffic_crashlog [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

traffic_crashlog is a lil helper process that sits there and catches Traffic Server crashes and then writes a crash report log into the logging directory. it's giving backstage crew energy 💅

ngl though — unless you're out here doing debugging or development stuff, traffic_crashlog is not meant for users to run directly. it's not for you like that 🙈

so here's the vibe: when traffic_server starts up, it launches a traffic_crashlog process and keeps it stopped, and only activates it if a crash happens. like a bodyguard who's asleep until someone starts drama 😴➡️🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --host TRIPLE — this one tells you which host triple the process that traffic_crashlog should examine is running on. and if you give it a supported host triple, then traffic_crashlog expects to receive a siginfo_t structure on its standard input, followed by a ucontext_t. yes bestie, on stdin, in that order, no cap 👑
• --target PID — drop the process ID of the crashing traffic_server process right here. if you don't specify this option, traffic_crashlog just assumes it should go examine its parent process instead 🫣
• --syslog — with this one, traffic_crashlog logs the name of the crash log it creates to the system log. receipts, basically 🧾✨
• --debug — turns on debugging mode. in this mode, traffic_crashlog emits the log to its standard output instead 📢
• --wait — this makes traffic_crashlog stop itself immediately after it's launched. then traffic_server will only let it continue when a crash actually occurs. it's giving "don't call me, i'll call you" 💀

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😭 CAVEATS 😭

traffic_crashlog makes use of various Traffic Server management APIs. so if traffic_manager is not available, bestie, the crash log will be incomplete. fr fr 😔

also — and this is important — traffic_crashlog may generate a crash log that contains information you would rather not share outside your organization. so please, examine the crash log carefully before you post it in a public forum. like, read it first. do not just yeet it into the group chat 🚨🙈

ok that second caveat is the real one. that log can have your whole life in it. peek before you post, bestie 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• records.config(5)
• traffic_manager(8)
• traffic_server(8)

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2026, dev@trafficserver.apache.org

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and that's the whole page, angel 🎀 this one's from version 9.2, dated Feb 12, 2026, out of the Apache Traffic Server era — go read your crash logs before you post 'em, mwah 💋💖