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- Tips
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date: "2021-02-18T08:34:30Z"
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teaser: assets/images/posts-2020/PPZu_UOGO.png
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- logs
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- vmware
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title: Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles
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toc: false
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I recently ran into a peculiar issue after upgrading my vRealize Automation homelab to the new 8.3 release, and the error message displayed in the UI didn't give me a whole lot of information to work with:
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I connected to the vRA appliance to try to find the relevant log excerpt, but [doing so isn't all that straightforward](https://www.stevenbright.com/2020/01/vmware-vrealize-automation-8-0-logs/#:~:text=Access%20Logs%20from%20the%20CLI) given the containerized nature of the services.
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So instead I used the `vracli log-bundle` command to generate a bundle of all relevant logs, and I then transferred the resulting (2.2GB!) `log-bundle.tar` to my workstation for further investigation. I expanded the tar and ran `tree -P '*.log'` to get a quick idea of what I've got to deal with:
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Ugh. Even if I knew which logs I wanted to look at (and I don't) it would take ages to dig through all of this. There's got to be a better way.
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And there is! Visual Studio Code lets you open an entire directory tree in the editor:
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You can then "Find in Files" with `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`F`, and VS Code will *very* quickly search through all the files to find what you're looking for:
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You can also click the "Open in editor" link at the top of the search results to open the matching snippets in a single view:
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Adjusting the number at the far top right of that view will dynamically tweak how many context lines are included with each line containing the search term.
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In this case, the logs didn't actually tell me what was going wrong - but I felt much better for having explored them! Maybe this little trick will help you track down what's ailing you. |