Using Wingman AI to diagnose server crashes
Walk through a real-world crash log with Wingman AI and turn a scary stacktrace into a concrete fix in under two minutes.
Server crashes are stressful — but most Minecraft, FiveM and Rust crashes follow recognizable patterns. Here's how Wingman AI turns a crash dump into actionable steps.
Step 1 — capture the crash
When the server dies, open the Files tab and grab the latest file in /crash-reports/ (Minecraft) or the tail of the console log (FiveM, Rust).
Step 2 — paste into Wingman
Open the Wingman chat and paste the log. A prompt template that works:
"This is my latest Minecraft crash — tell me the root cause and the exact fix. I'm running Paper 1.21.1."
Step 3 — read the response
Wingman typically returns:
- The specific line or plugin that caused the crash.
- Whether it's a known issue (upstream bug, plugin conflict, corrupted chunk).
- Concrete steps: remove this plugin, bump that jar, delete chunk at X,Z, rename this config key.
Common causes Wingman catches in seconds
- Plugin incompatibility — e.g. a 1.19 plugin loaded on 1.21 server.
- Corrupted chunk — "Watchdog" crash; Wingman returns the chunk coords to delete.
- Out of memory — JVM heap exhaustion; Wingman suggests Aikar flags or a RAM bump.
- Stack overflow from infinite loop — tells you which plugin is recursing.
When to escalate
If the crash is related to hardware (disk I/O errors, kernel OOM killer, host network failure), Wingman flags it and suggests opening a ticket — a WingNode engineer is faster on infrastructure issues.