# REST API debugging - how to enable
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310 "2025-02-09T08:16:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@francis\_exalate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/francis_exalate)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310/1 "2025-02-09T08:16:52Z")
I’m doing a REST call to /uploads.json, which works fine in postman, but not in the client that I’m writing.
Discourse response contains an empty string - probably I’m missing something.
Is there another approach to see how an incoming REST call gets processed and why a 400 response is generated?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310/2 "2025-02-09T13:37:07Z")
You can look at /var/discourse/shared/standalone/logs/rails/production.log
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### Author:  [@francis\_exalate](https://meta.discourse.org/u/francis_exalate)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310/3 "2025-02-10T08:30:05Z")
I’m using the docker image provided by tiredofit/discourse, and apparently there is no production.log
```plaintext
[tiredofit/discourse:3.2.2 08:28:46 ~] $ find / -name production.log
[tiredofit/discourse:3.2.2 08:29:02 ~] $
```
I took another route and used the postman proxy to see what the app is sending (instead of trying to find it in the log).
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rest-api-debugging-how-to-enable/351310/4 "2025-09-17T23:10:17Z")