[Eg-newdevs] Reading logs with VSCode

[Morgan, Michele]

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
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Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
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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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