[Eg-newdevs] Reading logs with VSCode

[Stephanie Leary]

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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