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The problem with Crashlytics is that you can't get your data out besides through their pretty website. Their search is limited and there's no adhoc querying. There's no API so you can't integrate with any of your other tools. Also, you have to trust Twitter with your app's data.

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Have you guys tried out Crittercism? (Full disclosure - I'm Rob, one of the founders and CTO) - We have an API (http://docs.crittercism.com/api/api.html), alerting, PagerDuty integration, automatic tracking of events like loss of internet connectivity, app background/foreground, etc.

They also need to add proper alerting. Telling me that my app with 1m users has reached "Impact Level 2" for a particular bug because it's affected 50 people is basically useless.

Agree. That's an area I personally want to address and am addressing. Oh the stories I have around that!

If they had a proper querying API you could build your own alerting and integrate it with PagerDuty or whatever system you might use.

We actually integrate with PagerDuty and a bunch of other services already (users can submit integrations too) :-)

Existing integrations: http://try.crashlytics.com/integrations/

Submit integrations using: https://github.com/crashlytics/crashlytics-services

The only thing those integrations do is handle the existing Crashlytics-defined alerts. I'm not allowed to define my own alerts.

Wayne here. I hear your loud and clear. Working on it.. :-)

This may not be relevant anymore, but last year I made a simple tool to get stats out: https://github.com/MattNewberry/crashstats

>> "There's no API so you can't integrate with any of your other tools."

There's no API but they do offer some integrations with things like Asana, BitBucket, Slack etc. through the settings page.

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