Commit eedc39fd authored by Mike Lewis's avatar Mike Lewis

Minor edits to correlation id guide

parent 86ff18f5
......@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ documenation for some popular browsers.
To locate a relevant request and view its correlation ID:
1. Enable persistent logging in your network monitor. Some actions in GitLab will redirect you quickly after you submit a form, so this will help capture all relevant activity.
1. To help isolate the requests you are looking for, you can filter for "document" requests.
1. To help isolate the requests you are looking for, you can filter for `document` requests.
1. Click the request of interest to view further detail.
1. Go to the "headers" section and look for _response_ headers. There you should find an `x-request-id` header with a
randomly generated value.
1. Go to the **Headers** section and look for **Response Headers**. There you should find an `x-request-id` header with a
value that was randomly generated by GitLab for the request.
See the following example:
......@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ interested in.
### Getting the correlation ID from curl
If you're using curl then you can use the verbose option to show request and response headers, as well as other debug info.
If you're using `curl` then you can use the verbose option to show request and response headers, as well as other debug info.
```shell
➜ ~ curl --verbose https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects
......@@ -122,5 +122,5 @@ If you have done some horizontal scaling in your GitLab infrastructure, then
you will need to search across _all_ of your GitLab nodes. You can do this with
some sort of log aggregation software like Loki, ELK, Splunk, or others.
You can use a tool like Ansible or PSSH (parellel SSH) that can execute commands across your servers in
parallel to execute the same search command. Or you could craft your own solution.
You can use a tool like Ansible or PSSH (parellel SSH) that can execute identical commands across your servers in
parallel, or craft your own solution.
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