# How to debug Akismet plugin?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** akismet\
**Created:** [March 5, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-akismet-plugin/220122 "2022-03-05T00:09:11Z")\
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To be clear, it seems to work sometimes but not all the time and it’s kind of a mystery as to why.

That’s why I was hoping there was a log somewhere that I can watch where I can see what’s going on. IE, “this new post doesn’t need to go to Akismet because user is TL3” and “this post needs to go to Akismet and Akismet’s answer was its okay”. Does such a log exist?

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