# Debug node: option to have "complete msg object" as default

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-node-option-to-have-complete-msg-object-as-default/36153>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [18 November 2020 16:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-node-option-to-have-complete-msg-object-as-default/36153 "2020-11-18T16:53:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [18 November 2020 21:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-node-option-to-have-complete-msg-object-as-default/36153/4 "2020-11-18T21:00:50Z")

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I spent some time thinking about that

> [@Debug node output -- show complete message options](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-node-output-show-complete-message-options/26577):
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> Hi, The default output of the debug node is to show msg.payload in the sidebar. The first thing I usually do after dragging a debug node into the canvas is to edit it to show the complete message object. While this allows to see more than the payload, it also has the disadvantage of showing the message id, which can be distracting. There might be a JSONata expression which does that, but it is not really convenient to configure that all the time. Some ideas: The debug node shows the messag…

In my install, I also sort the keys alphabetically and move every key that starts with "\_" to the end.

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