# HTTP Toolkit Pro Adds Context-Rich HTTP Debugging and Automated Performance Analysis

DevFeed: [HTTP Toolkit Pro Adds Context-Rich HTTP Debugging and Automated Performance Analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/x-ray-debugging-for-http-19104.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://httptoolkit.com/blog/xray-debugging-for-http/>)

Author: HTTP Toolkit; Tim Perry

Published: 2019-04-24T12:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [HTTP Toolkit](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/http-toolkit.md>)

Topics: [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [OpenAPI Specification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openapi.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>)

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## AI overview

This release introduces new HTTP Toolkit Pro features for understanding HTTP traffic. It adds API-aware request analysis using OpenAPI data, inline parameter documentation, validation warnings, and automated performance analysis covering response time, compression, and caching.

## Source excerpt

HTTP Toolkit is a suite of open-source & cross-platform tools for developing, debugging & testing anything using HTTP. It lets you intercept HTTP(S) with one click, and explore, examine & understand all your traffic, to spot bugs, fix bugs, and build better software. The free release of the first version (HTTP View) has been available for a little while, and today I've got some new killer features launching as part of HTTP Toolkit Pro, to let you look deep inside your HTTP traffic, with all the context you need to understand everything your application is doing. API integrations for 1400+ APIs Understanding your traffic takes more than just the raw data. Using OpenAPI and the OpenAPI directory, HTTP Toolkit can work out exactly which API every single request is talking to, for APIs from AWS to Stripe to Github, and a whole lot more. With that, there's a lot of cool things we can do. For example: Here we've taken a request to the YouTube API, and immediately worked out what operation it's doing, interpreted the parameters to provide inline documentation, pointed out that one parameter has an invalid value, and spotted another required parameter that's missing. Debugging tools with real context - tools that really understand what you're trying to do - let you take your development skills to a whole new level. Performance analysis, tips & warnings Performance is hard. There's a huge number of ways to tweak & tune the speed of your application with HTTP, a lot of confusing specs (what's the difference between a no-store and no-cache cache-control header?), and not a lot of advice. For most applications though, the two most important things to focus on are compression, and caching. Streaming large responses hugely slows down client applications, and caching lets them avoid request round trips entirely. You can now get automated performance analysis for all HTTP responses, including the response time itself, but also the details of the request & response body compression