Dump analysis with Claude AI

Hello,

Did anyone try analyzing a full memory dump with claude ?

I just tried it, not with an installed agent on my computer, but just asking him how to proceed and feeding it the results of the commands, for system freeze, and driver crashes, and it seems to be doind really well !

I would have never tought that it could perform so well at doing this...

Do any of you use it ? If so do you still need to check if it is wrong or not ?

Yes, it's gotten quite good. Last week I pointed it to a dump and to cdb.exe and in a minute it had diagnosed the crash. Symbols were already configured.

A bit sad really, after spending so many years practicing crash dump analysis. But also less frustrating. When it works. :joy:

Alnoor

I've been using Claude for both analysis of memory dump files (kernel-mode & process dumps) with excellent results for about 5 months now. If I ensure that it's provided with the relevant PDB symbol files and source code, it does a fantastic job of tearing through the dump file contents, decoding it, analyzing it and presenting meaningful findings. There is an MCP available on GitHub which allows Claude to use cdb.exe to directly access a '.dmp' file to facilitate the dump file analysis.

In the case of performing live debugging, it's also been very good at providing commands to issue via the console for WinDbg and then taking the resulting console output via copy & paste back into Claude for analysis, or saving to a file which Claude can then read.

Using Claude in this manner has easily saved me 100+ hours of debugging effort in the past few months.