# View body content in logs on POST requests
**URL:** https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185
**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)
**Created:** [November 30, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185 "2012-11-30T11:24:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Loic\_Descotte](https://community.gatling.io/u/Loic_Descotte)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/1 "2012-11-30T11:24:27Z")
Hi all,
is it possible to see the content of a POST request in the logs?
I have some 500 errors and I’m getting data from a big jdbc feeder. If I activate logs I can see errors like :
status=
500 Internal Server Error
headers= …
But I would like to see the body content for each failed request, to see if the content was wrong or if the server is not able to respond
Thanks,
Loic
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### Author:  [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/2 "2012-11-30T13:29:20Z")
We could print more info on debug level, but that would considerably slow down the engine. So I agree this could be interesting, but mainly for debugging purpose.
Have you tried using the extractor hooks:
[https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-custom-dump](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-custom-dump)
You could write something like:
.responseInfoExtractor { response =\>
if (response.getStatusCode != 200) {
val extendedResponse = response.asInstanceOf[com.excilys.ebi.gatling.http.response.ExtendedResponse] // will change hook signature so that you don’t have to cast
println(extendedResponse.request.getStringData) // search com.ning.http.client.Request for the data your interested in
}
Nil
}
Hope that helps,
Stéphane
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### Author:  [@Loic\_Descotte](https://community.gatling.io/u/Loic_Descotte)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/3 "2012-11-30T13:42:57Z")
Thanks it’s exactly what I needed!
Loic
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### Author:  [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/4 "2012-11-30T14:24:23Z")
For the record:
[https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/847](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/847)
[https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/848](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/848)
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### Author:  [@Tejas\_Shah1](https://community.gatling.io/u/Tejas_Shah1)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/5 "2013-02-28T12:52:37Z")
Hi,
This is how we can print response. Can you please let me know how to print request content ?
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### Author:  [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/6 "2013-02-28T12:57:02Z")
This WAS a way of logging.
If you read the thread, you’ll that I pointed some issues fixed in 1.4.0, meaning that they’ve been solved and shipped.
You now simply have to uncomment a logger in the logback.xml file. See [https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Configuration#wiki-config-files](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Configuration#wiki-config-files)
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### Author:  [@Chiya](https://community.gatling.io/u/Chiya)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/7 "2013-10-14T18:47:28Z")
Hi STephane,
I tried to implement your code below but I am getting the error:
value responseInfoExtractor is not a member of com.excilys.ebi.gatling.http.request.builder.PostHttpRequestBuilder
I am using gatling 1.5. 2.
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### Author:  [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/8 "2013-10-14T18:54:29Z")
Hi,
Look at the documentation: [https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-custom-dump](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-custom-dump)
This is a sub-paragraph of [https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-protocol-config](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#wiki-protocol-config)
ie responseInfoExtractor is a HttpProtocol method, not a request one.
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### Author:  [@Maxence\_Warzecha](https://community.gatling.io/u/Maxence_Warzecha)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/9 "2013-12-12T20:28:55Z")
I got trouble to print reponses body in logs but finally find an easy way.
Here is my working configuration with gatling 1.5.2 :
1. Base on this : [GitHub - gatling/gatling: Modern Load Testing as Code](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/HTTP#disableresponsechunksdiscarding-since-130)
Add ` **.disableResponseChunksDiscarding** ` on your `httpConf` object at the beginning of your Simulation.
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Hope it helps someone googling like me.
Maxence
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### Author:  [@Raja\_Thumati](https://community.gatling.io/u/Raja_Thumati)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/10 "2014-10-13T13:08:49Z")
thank you Maxence Warzecha,
it is very helpful to me.
but in my case i am getting response in the console but i am unable to print it in file.
i am attaching my console response as word file…and my response is in red color…
so please help me on this…
any suggestions are helpful to me.
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### Author:  [@Raja\_Thumati](https://community.gatling.io/u/Raja_Thumati)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/view-body-content-in-logs-on-post-requests/185/11 "2014-10-13T13:11:17Z")
sorry here is my attachment.
i want to print that red color JSON(response body) into file
[HTTP request.docx](https://community.gatling.io/uploads/short-url/4wnNoULAG4SQ0BwVwoohtOW87kL.docx) (13.4 KB)