---
title: "Build a crash report now, for the user to look at and then send"
method: POST
path: "/api/crashes/report"
tags: ["crashes"]
---

# Build a crash report now, for the user to look at and then send

`POST /api/crashes/report`

fppd builds a full report (settings, configuration and logs, level 3) named like a crash report with a -manual suffix, and keeps it in the crashes folder (two manual reports at most). Nothing is sent: the user can download it from `GET /api/file/Crashes/<File>` to see what it holds, then send it with `POST /api/crashes/upload/<File>`, which needs their consent. `client` names the calling app in fppd.log. A build takes seconds on a fast player and can take a few minutes on a Pi Zero or BeagleBone. One build a minute, counted from the start of the last one. Error `Code`s: bad-request, busy, rate-limited, build-failed, unavailable.

## Request body

- object

## Response `200`

Report built

- object

## Changes

- **2026-09-26** `13c6438b010b` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/falconchristmas/apis/fpp-api/changes/api/crashes/report/post.md)

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