In this article we are going to see functions of jmeter used for writing custom Log while running jmeter test. As, default log is stored in /bin/jmeter.log file, this will store in there.

There ate two functions are used for running custom jmeter logs. 

1. ${__log(StringForLogAndReturn,DEBUG,Text thrown,Comments)}
-It has 4 parameter
-it provides a string as output and logs the string
-The first parameter(StringForLogAndReturn) is only mandatory parameter. Text in here will be logged and return as function return. So, we can use this for console output also.
- 2nd parameter for LOG LEVEL, means which level of log will be written. There are
OUT , it will show log to command line(java System.out).
ERR ,it will show log to System.err(systems error log)
DEBUG , Only provides digging info(helpful for post/pre processors)
INFO, this is default log from jmeter
WARN or ERROR , Only warning messages
-3rd parameter is used to throw(like exception) a throw-able to the logger if it is non empty. That means, we can throw an exception along with log by this.
-4th parameter is comments. It is typical user comments.


2. ${__logn(StringForLogAndReturn,DEBUG,Text thrown)}
-It has 3 parameter
-it logs the string but provides an empty string.
- Like as __log, all parameters are same except it does not have comments as parameter.

Both are used in
-When we need to debug steps /requests/processing logs
-When we want to know detail information about what happened during execution
-When we are skipping all listeners and wan to see the errors(or our specific info) only
-When we want extracted information/parameters in the log(we can use variable inside every parameter)

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