[Eg-newdevs] Reading logs with VSCode

[Terran McCanna]

Awesome, thanks Tiffany and Stephanie!

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On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:43 PM Stephanie Leary via Eg-newdevs <
eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Tiffany! These are great.
>
> I've made us a section for VSCode extensions on the Developer Tools page:
>
> https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=newdevs:landscape:tools#developer_tools
>
> I threw in the Indent Rainbow extension I mentioned last week.
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 9:40 AM Morgan, Michele via Eg-newdevs <
> eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sharing Tiffany!
>>
>> I usually slog through logs via command line, but these might help spare
>> my eyeballs. I'll give them a try!
>>
>> Michele
>> --
>> Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
>> North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
>> mmorgan at noblenet.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:55 AM Tiffany Little via Eg-newdevs <
>> eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Morning everyone,
>>>
>>> I just had occasion this week to trawl through EG logs, and I found some
>>> VSCode extensions that really helped (and I thought were cool) so I wanted
>>> to share.
>>>
>>> So basically I had the logs from our production server for about a 4
>>> hour span. It was a ginormous file. I found what I was looking for--Acq was
>>> spamming a perm check. So what I wanted was to see one person's activity to
>>> see what they were doing, but trying to parse out that one person from a
>>> constant torrent of activity wasn't working.
>>>
>>> So in Googling, I found the extension Filter Line
>>> <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=everettjf.filter-line>.
>>> There's a little finagling I had to do because the log file was so huge
>>> (detailed on that page), but after that I did my search term as the user's
>>> authtoken. And lo and behold, it pulled out all of the lines that had that
>>> user's authtoken, in time order, so I could literally step through and
>>> watch what they had done. You can also highlight any number of lines, and
>>> in the bottom left of your console you can see the time elapsed. So I could
>>> see that it was spamming this perm check like 50 times in the span of 2
>>> seconds.
>>>
>>> The second thing I found is Log File Highlighter
>>> <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=emilast.LogFileHighlighter>.
>>> I had to rename my text file with a .log extension for it to pick it up,
>>> but once it did it color codes the different pieces of info in the log. It
>>> just made it more readable for me (and y'all know I love color coding).
>>> Apparently you can even customize the colors too, but I haven't gotten
>>> there yet.
>>>
>>> I just thought those were so cool, so hopefully they're helpful to
>>> someone. :)
>>>
>>> Tiffany
>>>
>>> Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions
>>>
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