Troubleshooting the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio
The following sections contain general troubleshooting information about the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio and working with Amazon services from the toolkit.
Note
Installation and set-up-specific troubleshooting information is available in the Troubleshooting installation issues topic, located in this User Guide.
Troubleshooting best practices
The following are recommended best practices when troubleshooting Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio issues.
Attempt to recreate your issue or error prior to sending a report.
Take detailed notes of each step, setting, and error message during the recreation process.
Collect Amazon Toolkit Logs. For a detailed description of how to locate your Amazon Toolkit logs, see the How to locate your Amazon logs procedure, located in this guide topic.
Check for open requests, known solutions, or report your unresolved issue in the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio Issues
section of the Amazon Toolkit for Visual Studio GitHub repository.
How to locate your Amazon Toolkit logs
From the Visual Studio main menu, expand Extensions.
Choose the Amazon Toolkit to expand the Amazon Toolkit menu, then choose View Toolkit Logs.
When the Amazon Toolkit logs folder opens in your Operating System, sort the files by date and locate any log file that contains information relevant to your current issue.
Viewing and filtering Amazon Q security scans
To view your Amazon Q security scans in Visual Studio, open the Visual Studio Error List by expanding the View heading in the Visual Studio main menu and choosing Error List.
By default, the Visual Studio Error List displays all of the warnings and errors for your code base. To filter your Amazon Q security scan findings from the Visual Studio Error List, create a filter by completing the following procedure.
Note
Amazon Q security scan findings are only visible after security scan has run and detected issues.
Amazon Q security scan findings appear as warnings in Visual Studio. In order to view Amazon Q security scan findings from your Error List, the Warnings option in the Error List heading must be selected.
From the Visual Studio main menu, expand the View heading and choose Error List to open the Error List pane.
From the Error List pane, right-click the header row to open the context menu.
From the context menu, expand Show Columns, then select Tool in the expanded menu.
The Tool column is added to your Error List.
From the Tool column header, select the Filter icon and choose Amazon Q to filter for Amazon Q security scan findings.