Debugging ========= VCR.py has a few log messages you can turn on to help you figure out if HTTP requests are hitting a real server or not. You can turn them on like this: .. code:: python import vcr import requests import logging logging.basicConfig() # you need to initialize logging, otherwise you will not see anything from vcrpy vcr_log = logging.getLogger("vcr") vcr_log.setLevel(logging.INFO) with vcr.use_cassette('headers.yml'): requests.get('http://httpbin.org/headers') The first time you run this, you will see:: INFO:vcr.stubs: not in cassette, sending to real server The second time, you will see:: INFO:vcr.stubs:Playing response for from cassette If you set the loglevel to DEBUG, you will also get information about which matchers didn't match. This can help you with debugging custom matchers.