# Debug show full message as default / configurable

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-show-full-message-as-default-configurable/90904>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** debugging, debug\
**Created:** [12 September 2024 06:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-show-full-message-as-default-configurable/90904 "2024-09-12T06:54:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![smanjunath211](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/smanjunath211/32/95742_2.png) [@smanjunath211](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/smanjunath211)\
**Post date:** [12 September 2024 11:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-show-full-message-as-default-configurable/90904/6 "2024-09-12T11:44:27Z")

</div>

similar request done here...

> [@Debug node output -- show complete message options](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-node-output-show-complete-message-options/26577):
>
> 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…

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/debug-show-full-message-as-default-configurable/90904)._