Debug Identifiers

Each debug information file specifies a unique identifier. Crash reports declare these identifiers to allow debuggers and crash reporting systems to resolve the correct files. Sentry distinguishes two kinds of identifiers:

• Code Identifier: The unique identifier of the executable or dynamic library -- the code file. The contents of this identifier are platform-dependent: Mach-O files use a UUID, ELF files a SHA hash, PE files use a concatenation of certain header attributes. For WebAssembly we use an embedded UUID in the build_id section of the file.

• Debug Identifier: The unique identifier of the debug companion file. In contrast to the code identifier, Sentry enforces the same structure on all platforms. On Windows, this is the actual unique id of the PDB file; on all other platforms this is a lossy transformation of the code identifier.

When uploading debug information files to Sentry, the CLI and server will always compute a Debug Identifier for each uploaded file. This identifier is associated with executables and libraries as well as debug companions to ensure that they can be uniquely located via one common mechanism.

For native events, the issue details page displays a list of Loaded Images. This list contains the executable and all loaded dynamic libraries including their debug identifiers. You can copy this identifier and search for the exact files that match it in the Debug Files settings screen.

sentry-cli can help to print properties of debug information files like their debug identifier. See Checking Debug Information Files for more information.

WASM Build IDs

WebAssembly does not yet support build IDs. The option proposed to implement build IDs for WebAssembly (Build ID Section for WASM) has not yet found widespread adoption. Instead, we use a custom extension to WebAssembly.

Our recommendation is to embed a UUID in the build_id custom section as raw binary. Our wasm-split tool can do this for you automatically.