diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index b85263253..39dcb9047 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -121,3 +121,10 @@ jobs:
           name: LICENSE-3rdparty.yml
           path: /tmp/CI.yaml
           overwrite: true
+  verify-json-schema:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@v13
+      - uses: DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action@v7
+      - run: rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/verify_examples.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/schema.json b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1ae7386e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,426 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "title": "CrashInfo",
+    "type": "object",
+    "required": [
+      "incomplete",
+      "os_info",
+      "uuid"
+    ],
+    "properties": {
+      "additional_stacktraces": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "additionalProperties": {
+          "type": "array",
+          "items": {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/StackFrame"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "counters": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "additionalProperties": {
+          "type": "integer",
+          "format": "int64"
+        }
+      },
+      "files": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "additionalProperties": {
+          "type": "array",
+          "items": {
+            "type": "string"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "incomplete": {
+        "type": "boolean"
+      },
+      "metadata": {
+        "anyOf": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/CrashtrackerMetadata"
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "null"
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "os_info": {
+        "$ref": "#/definitions/OsInfo"
+      },
+      "proc_info": {
+        "anyOf": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/ProcessInfo"
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "null"
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "siginfo": {
+        "anyOf": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/SigInfo"
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "null"
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "span_ids": {
+        "type": "array",
+        "items": {
+          "type": "integer",
+          "format": "uint128",
+          "minimum": 0.0
+        }
+      },
+      "stacktrace": {
+        "type": "array",
+        "items": {
+          "$ref": "#/definitions/StackFrame"
+        }
+      },
+      "tags": {
+        "description": "Any additional data goes here",
+        "type": "object",
+        "additionalProperties": {
+          "type": "string"
+        }
+      },
+      "timestamp": {
+        "type": [
+          "string",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "trace_ids": {
+        "type": "array",
+        "items": {
+          "type": "integer",
+          "format": "uint128",
+          "minimum": 0.0
+        }
+      },
+      "uuid": {
+        "type": "string"
+      }
+    },
+    "definitions": {
+      "CrashtrackerMetadata": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": [
+          "family",
+          "profiling_library_name",
+          "profiling_library_version",
+          "tags"
+        ],
+        "properties": {
+          "family": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "profiling_library_name": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "profiling_library_version": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "tags": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "NormalizedAddress": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": [
+          "file_offset",
+          "meta"
+        ],
+        "properties": {
+          "file_offset": {
+            "type": "integer",
+            "format": "uint64",
+            "minimum": 0.0
+          },
+          "meta": {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/NormalizedAddressMeta"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "NormalizedAddressMeta": {
+        "oneOf": [
+          {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "Unknown"
+            ]
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Apk"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Apk": {
+                "type": "string"
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Elf"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Elf": {
+                "type": "object",
+                "required": [
+                  "path"
+                ],
+                "properties": {
+                  "build_id": {
+                    "type": [
+                      "array",
+                      "null"
+                    ],
+                    "items": {
+                      "type": "integer",
+                      "format": "uint8",
+                      "minimum": 0.0
+                    }
+                  },
+                  "path": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Unexpected"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Unexpected": {
+                "type": "string"
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "OsInfo": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": [
+          "architecture",
+          "bitness",
+          "os_type",
+          "version"
+        ],
+        "properties": {
+          "architecture": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "bitness": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "os_type": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "version": {
+            "$ref": "#/definitions/Version"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "ProcessInfo": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": [
+          "pid"
+        ],
+        "properties": {
+          "pid": {
+            "type": "integer",
+            "format": "uint32",
+            "minimum": 0.0
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "SigInfo": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": [
+          "signum"
+        ],
+        "properties": {
+          "signame": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          },
+          "signum": {
+            "type": "integer",
+            "format": "uint64",
+            "minimum": 0.0
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "StackFrame": {
+        "description": "All fields are hex encoded integers.",
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "ip": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          },
+          "module_base_address": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          },
+          "names": {
+            "type": [
+              "array",
+              "null"
+            ],
+            "items": {
+              "$ref": "#/definitions/StackFrameNames"
+            }
+          },
+          "normalized_ip": {
+            "anyOf": [
+              {
+                "$ref": "#/definitions/NormalizedAddress"
+              },
+              {
+                "type": "null"
+              }
+            ]
+          },
+          "sp": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          },
+          "symbol_address": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "StackFrameNames": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "colno": {
+            "type": [
+              "integer",
+              "null"
+            ],
+            "format": "uint32",
+            "minimum": 0.0
+          },
+          "filename": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          },
+          "lineno": {
+            "type": [
+              "integer",
+              "null"
+            ],
+            "format": "uint32",
+            "minimum": 0.0
+          },
+          "name": {
+            "type": [
+              "string",
+              "null"
+            ]
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "Version": {
+        "oneOf": [
+          {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "Unknown"
+            ]
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Semantic"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Semantic": {
+                "type": "array",
+                "items": [
+                  {
+                    "type": "integer",
+                    "format": "uint64",
+                    "minimum": 0.0
+                  },
+                  {
+                    "type": "integer",
+                    "format": "uint64",
+                    "minimum": 0.0
+                  },
+                  {
+                    "type": "integer",
+                    "format": "uint64",
+                    "minimum": 0.0
+                  }
+                ],
+                "maxItems": 3,
+                "minItems": 3
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Rolling"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Rolling": {
+                "type": [
+                  "string",
+                  "null"
+                ]
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "required": [
+              "Custom"
+            ],
+            "properties": {
+              "Custom": {
+                "type": "string"
+              }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
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diff --git a/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/valid-example-1.json b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/valid-example-1.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c98295c4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/valid-example-1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+{
+    "counters": {
+      "unwinding": 0,
+      "not_profiling": 0,
+      "serializing": 1,
+      "collecting_sample": 0
+    },
+    "incomplete": false,
+    "metadata": {
+      "profiling_library_name": "crashtracking-test",
+      "profiling_library_version": "12.34.56",
+      "family": "crashtracking-test",
+      "tags": []
+    },
+    "os_info": {
+      "os_type": "Macos",
+      "version": {
+        "Semantic": [
+          14,
+          5,
+          0
+        ]
+      },
+      "edition": null,
+      "codename": null,
+      "bitness": "X64",
+      "architecture": "arm64"
+    },
+    "proc_info": {
+      "pid": 95565
+    },
+    "siginfo": {
+      "signum": 11,
+      "signame": "SIGSEGV"
+    },
+    "span_ids": [
+      42
+    ],
+    "stackstrace": [
+      {
+        "ip": "0x100f702ac",
+        "names": [
+          {
+            "colno": 5,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/backtrace-0.3.71/src/backtrace/libunwind.rs",
+            "lineno": 105,
+            "name": "trace"
+          },
+          {
+            "colno": 5,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/backtrace-0.3.71/src/backtrace/mod.rs",
+            "lineno": 66,
+            "name":
+  "trace_unsynchronized<datadog_crashtracker::collectors::emit_backtrace_by_frames::{closure_env#0}<std::process::ChildStdin>>"
+          },
+          {
+            "colno": 5,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/go/src/github.com/DataDog/libdatadog/crashtracker/src/collectors.rs",
+            "lineno": 33,
+            "name": "emit_backtrace_by_frames<std::process::ChildStdin>"
+          }
+        ],
+        "sp": "0x16f9658c0",
+        "symbol_address": "0x100f702ac"
+      },
+      {
+        "ip": "0x100f6f518",
+        "names": [
+          {
+            "colno": 18,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/go/src/github.com/DataDog/libdatadog/crashtracker/src/crash_handler.rs",
+            "lineno": 379,
+            "name": "emit_crashreport<std::process::ChildStdin>"
+          },
+          {
+            "colno": 23,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/go/src/github.com/DataDog/libdatadog/crashtracker/src/crash_handler.rs",
+            "lineno": 414,
+            "name": "handle_posix_signal_impl"
+          },
+          {
+            "colno": 13,
+            "filename":
+  "/Users/daniel.schwartznarbonne/go/src/github.com/DataDog/libdatadog/crashtracker/src/crash_handler.rs",
+            "lineno": 264,
+            "name": "handle_posix_sigaction"
+          }
+        ],
+        "sp": "0x16f965940",
+        "symbol_address": "0x100f6f518"
+      },
+      {
+        "ip": "0x186b9b584",
+        "names": [
+          {
+            "name": "__simple_esappend"
+          }
+        ],
+        "sp": "0x16f965ae0",
+        "symbol_address": "0x186b9b584"
+      },
+      {
+        "ip": "0x10049bd94",
+        "names": [
+          {
+            "name": "_main"
+          }
+        ],
+        "sp": "0x16f965b10",
+        "symbol_address": "0x10049bd94"
+      }
+    ],
+    "trace_ids": [
+      18446744073709551617
+    ],
+    "timestamp": "2024-07-19T16:52:16.422378Z",
+    "uuid": "a42add90-0e60-4799-b9f7-cbe0ebec4f27"
+  }
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diff --git a/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/verify_examples.sh b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/verify_examples.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..cc9469466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rfc/0001-crashtracker-user-visable-log/verify_examples.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash -p yajsv
+
+# Copyright 2021-Present Datadog, Inc. https://www.datadoghq.com/
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0'
+
+# this script uses nix provided yajsv to verify the examples using provided schema
+# 
+# install nix locally to run this script (e.g. via https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer)
+
+ROOT=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )
+
+cd ${ROOT}
+yajsv -s schema.json "valid-*.json"