From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
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Logging and parsing data
From the course: Performance Testing Foundations
Logging and parsing data
- [Instructor] There's more to performance testing than just running tests. An important aspect of it can be finding data on how the performance of your application is working on production servers for actual users of your application. So I have up on the screen here a sample log file, and this can be a great source of information. There's a lot of different ways that application store log files, but in this video, we're going to talk about the server access log, and this is a log file that servers have where they track information about the different requests that they receive. Now there are tools out there that you can use to parse a log file like this, but sometimes it's just nice to have a quick and dirty tool that you can make yourself. So what I want to do here is to try and use an LLM to generate a script that we can use to parse a log file. So let's try it out and see what happens. And I'll paste in a simple…
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