Merge pull request github#5946 from shati-patel/vscode-custom-logs

Docs: Describe custom log directory setting in VS Code extension

Author: shati-patel

docs/codeql/codeql-for-visual-studio-code/customizing-settings.rst

@@ -46,13 +46,17 @@ The query history **Format** setting controls how the extension lists queries in
 
 To override the default label, you can specify a different format for the query history items.
 
+.. _configuring-settings-for-running-queries:
+
 Configuring settings for running queries
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 There are a number of settings for **Running Queries**. If your queries run too slowly and time out frequently, you may want to increase the memory. 
 
 .. include:: ../reusables/running-queries-debug.rst
 
+To save query server logs in a custom location, edit the **Running Queries: Custom Log Directory** setting. If you use a custom log directory, the extension saves the logs permanently, instead of deleting them automatically after each workspace session. This is useful if you want to investigate these logs to improve the performance of your queries.
+
 Configuring settings for testing queries
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docs/codeql/codeql-for-visual-studio-code/troubleshooting-codeql-for-visual-studio-code.rst

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ You are most likely to need to restart the query server if you make external cha
 To see the logs from running a particular query, right-click the query in the Query History and select **Show Query Log**.
 If the log file is too large for the extension to open in the VS Code editor, the file will be displayed in your file explorer so you can open it with an external program.
 
+By default, the extension deletes logs after each workspace session. To override this behavior, you can specify a custom directory for query server logs. For more information, see ":ref:`Customizing settings <configuring-settings-for-running-queries>`."
+
 Exploring problems with running tests
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docs/codeql/reusables/running-queries-debug.rst

@@ -1 +1 @@
-If you want to examine query performance, enable the **Running Queries: Debug** setting to include timing and tuple counts in the CodeQL Query Server logs shown in the Output view. The tuple count is useful because it indicates the size of the :ref:`predicates <predicates>` computed by the query.
+If you want to examine query performance, enable the **Running Queries: Debug** setting to include timing and tuple counts. This is shown in the logs in the CodeQL Query Server tab of the Output view. The tuple count is useful because it indicates the size of the :ref:`predicates <predicates>` computed by the query.