JMeter - how to log the full request for a failed response?

Question

Hi folks,

i'm using JMeter command line to stress test our website api. Now, here's a sample result i'm getting back:

Creating summariser <summary>
Created the tree successfully using street_advisor.jmx
Starting the test @ Sat Oct 03 15:22:59 PDT 2009 (1254608579848)
Waiting for possible shutdown message on port 4445
summary +     1 in   0.0s =   37.0/s Avg:    27 Min:    27 Max:    27 Err:     1 (100.00%)
<snip a few more lines>
<then i break it>

So i'm getting an error.

Currently, all errors are going to a file. When i check that file, it's saying it's a 404. Er.. ok. Is there anyway i can see exactly what the request JMeter tried?

here's a snippet of my config file...

<ResultCollector guiclass="SimpleDataWriter" testclass="ResultCollector" testname="Error Writer" enabled="true">
          <boolProp name="ResultCollector.error_logging">true</boolProp>
          <objProp>
            <name>saveConfig</name>
            <value class="SampleSaveConfiguration">
              <time>true</time>
              <latency>true</latency>
              <timestamp>false</timestamp>
              <success>true</success>
              <label>true</label>
              <code>true</code>
              <message>true</message>
              <threadName>false</threadName>
              <dataType>true</dataType>
              <encoding>false</encoding>
              <assertions>true</assertions>
              <subresults>true</subresults>
              <responseData>false</responseData>
              <samplerData>false</samplerData>
              <xml>true</xml>
              <fieldNames>false</fieldNames>
              <responseHeaders>true</responseHeaders>
              <requestHeaders>true</requestHeaders>
              <responseDataOnError>false</responseDataOnError>
              <saveAssertionResultsFailureMessage>false</saveAssertionResultsFailureMessage>
              <assertionsResultsToSave>0</assertionsResultsToSave>
              <bytes>true</bytes>
            </value>
          </objProp>
          <stringProp name="filename">./error.jtl</stringProp>
        </ResultCollector>

Now, before someone says 'Check the webserver log files', I know I can do this and yep, I've found the 404 .. but i'm hoping to see if it's possible without accessing them .. especially if they are on another server and/or I can't get access to them. Please help!

Answer 1

The View Results Tree component shows a tree of all sample responses, allowing you to view the response for any sample. You can also save the entire response to a file using Save Responses to a file.