# The data displayed in the output window is incomplete
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [5 August 2021 07:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364 "2021-08-05T07:21:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@lei1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lei1)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 07:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/1 "2021-08-05T07:21:22Z")
I read the data from the database and output it through the debug node, but when the data length is too long, the display is incomplete, using the ...
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 07:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/2 "2021-08-05T07:34:45Z")
Imagine what will happen if all the data was printed out all the time ....
Specially with the low end machines ..
We are humans, we can't read 1000+ entries from array. It just does not make sense.
Long data is cut to reasonable length just to keep your computer responsive. There is many ways to debug smaller portions of large datasets. But for now, there is not much information shared to give any specific advise.
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### Author:  [@lei1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lei1)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 07:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/3 "2021-08-05T07:38:03Z")
thank you ，But, is there a way to display the full data
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### Author:  [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 07:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/4 "2021-08-05T07:42:36Z")
Write it as text file using `file node` or make `csv` with `csv node` and see it with excel or format data to be able to represent it with some chart ....
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### Author:  [@lei1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/lei1)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 07:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/5 "2021-08-05T07:44:09Z")
thank you so much
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [5 August 2021 16:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/6 "2021-08-05T16:24:42Z")
Or set the debug node to output to the console and then the full data will appear in the node red log.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 August 2021 16:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-data-displayed-in-the-output-window-is-incomplete/49364/7 "2021-08-19T16:25:03Z")
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