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title: Overview
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# Issues: Overview

The issues functionality of the Bitdrift dashboard provides a high-level overview and details about
app terminations related to programmatic issues like uncaught runtime errors and unresponsiveness to
user interaction.

These views can be further filtered to view specific platforms, app versions, and trends and be used
alongside lightweight triaging features to highlight and collaborate on important issues.


## Key Features

### Grouping

Detected issues are automatically grouped based on the type of error and stack trace contents.

Each group surfaces a breakdown of the affected app versions, device metrics, and trend data. Each
group can be further explored to view the stack trace, active feature flags, and session timelines
including logs, user interactions, and network activity of individual issues.

See the feature guide to learn more about the [high-level view and explorations of issue
details](issue-views.md) and [grouping configuration
options](grouping.md).

### Filtering

The issues overview and group views can be refined to focus on specific attributes including app
platform, version, triage status, feature flags, custom fields, and time frames. Filtered views can be then be
saved and shared with the organization.

See the feature guide to learn more about [refining searches with
Filters](filtering.md) or [creating Saved
Views](filtering.md#saved-views).

### Alerts and Notifications

The alerting and notifications features support integration with external channels like Slack and
PagerDuty to keep teams aware of issues and trends.

* **[Alerts](alerts-notifications.md#alerts)** are configurable monitors for detecting patterns and
  fire when conditions are met, like the frequency or trend direction of errors.

* **[Notifications](alerts-notifications.md#notifications)** trigger instantly when specific events
  occur, like a new issue group being detected or a specific issue recurring.

### Triaging

High-level issue views include investigation progress statuses and assignment tools for
collaboration and tracking when specific issues are resolved. In addition, fixed issue groups are
automatically reopened if an issue is received with a newer app version than any present when the
issue was fixed.

See the feature guide to learn more about [setting and filtering by status and assignee](triaging.md).

## Getting Started

## Features

- **Issue Views:** See crash trends over time and drill into grouped issues with detailed metrics, filtering, and triage options.
- **Filtering:** Narrow issues by app version, platform, or user environment, and save filter combinations as reusable views.
- **Alerts and Notifications:** Monitor issue patterns over time with alerts, or get instant notifications when new issue groups appear or specific issues recur.
- **Triaging:** Assign investigation status and owners to issue groups for tracking and collaboration.
- **Grouping:** Issues are automatically grouped by error type, stack trace, and originating binary, with customizable in-app frame detection on Android.

## Getting Started

* See the [SDK Guide](../../sdk/features/fatal-issues.md) to configure this feature in your apps