How can i see the actual HTTP Traffic

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New to N8N and using the cloud version. Is there a way to look at the actual HTTP REST calls made by n8n nodes? For example, if I am using the JIRA node, I would like to see what exact traffic is being sent to JIRA and what is being received back.

Describe the problem/error/question

What is the error message (if any)?

Please share your workflow

(Select the nodes on your canvas and use the keyboard shortcuts CMD+C/CTRL+C and CMD+V/CTRL+V to copy and paste the workflow.)

Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

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Hey @Jay_Janarthanan !

Browser Console (F12 or right click and Inspect).

Then in the Console or Network you can see what is sent and response usually when you start or run any node manually.

There may be other ways , but this one is the quickest.

Cheers!

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Hi @Jay_Janarthanan,

I believe you need to set the N8N_LOG_LEVEL env variable in your server setup to “debug” to get verbose level details in the logs

However Im not sure if it will give you the actual REST calls.

Your best bet would be to make use of some sort of a proxy or network tool to monitor traffic to and from your n8n instance as n8n does not have an out of the box mechanism for this

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