O Red Hat Crash Utility é um depurador específico do kernel. É geralmente usado para executar a análise post-mortem do sistema quando o sistema entra em pânico, é bloqueado ou parece não responder. O utilitário pode ser usado para investigar:
Live Linux systems
Linux kernel core dumps created by the Kdump facility
Compressed Linux kernel core dumps created by the makedumpfile command (from kdump dumpfiles)
Linux kernel core dumps created from by the Red Hat Netdump facility
Linux kernel core dumps created from by the Red Hat Diskdump facility
Compressed Linux kernel core dumps created by the Red Hat Diskdump facility
Xen host Linux kernel core dumps created by the Kdump facility
Xen guest Linux kernel core dumps created by the original xendump facility
Xen guest Linux kernel core dumps created by the ELF-format xendump facility
Xen hypervisor core dumps created by the Kdump facility
KVM guest Linux kernel core dumps created by the virsh dump facility
s390 Linux kernel core dumps created by the IBM standalone core dump facility.
s390x Linux kernel core dumps created by the IBM standalone core dump facility.
Linux kernel core dumps created by the LKCD (Linux Kernel Crash Dumps) Sourceforge project
Linux kernel core dumps created by the Mcore patch offered by Mission Critical Linux