# Color-coded Debugger entries

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/color-coded-debugger-entries/21274>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [4 February 2020 16:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/color-coded-debugger-entries/21274 "2020-02-04T16:39:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![afelix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/afelix/32/9743_2.png) [@afelix](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/afelix)\
**Post date:** [4 February 2020 17:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/color-coded-debugger-entries/21274/2 "2020-02-04T17:30:40Z")

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Take a look at the topic that got posted this morning related to the debugger window

> [@clipboard Survey: logging to debug sidebar](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/survey-logging-to-debug-sidebar/21253):
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> Hi, one of the long-standing quirks of the Function node is that the only way to get a message to appear in the Debug sidebar is to use node.warn or node.error. The problem with this approach is it puts what should be debugging comments into the log at warn/error levels. That is not a good thing for systems that monitor warn/error levels and automatically raise alerts when they happen. The question is: how can we improve this? It isn't a hard problem to solve, but there are a few different wa…

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