# Show @debug log in gitgub actions CI when activated

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-debug-log-in-gitgub-actions-ci-when-activated/125240>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** logging, github-actions\
**Created:** [January 26, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-debug-log-in-gitgub-actions-ci-when-activated/125240 "2025-01-26T23:06:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-debug-log-in-gitgub-actions-ci-when-activated/125240/1 "2025-01-26T23:06:46Z")

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Github actions allow debug logging that can be enabled here:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/8/8824adb0a2702c6cc963c6fe6e46d7da7fad22ec.png)

I want to setup my `CI.yml` file to also show the `@debug` message. I added these 3 lines for this:

```yaml
name: CI
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
    tags: ['*']
  pull_request:
concurrency:
  # Skip intermediate builds: always.
  # Cancel intermediate builds: only if it is a pull request build.
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/pull/') }}
jobs:
  test:
    name: Julia ${{ matrix.version }} - ${{ matrix.os }} - ${{ matrix.arch }} - ${{ github.event_name }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.version == 'nightly' }}
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        version:
          - '1'
          - '1.10'
          - 'nightly'
        os:
          - ubuntu-latest
        arch:
          - x64
    steps:
      - name: Set JULIA_DEBUG environment variable # new line!
        if: ${{ runner.debug == '1' }} # new line!
        run: echo "JULIA_DEBUG=all" >> $GITHUB_ENV # new line!
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
        with:
          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
      - uses: julia-actions/julia-runtest@v1
      - uses: julia-actions/julia-processcoverage@v1
      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
          fail_ci_if_error: false 

```

it works well but big objects like vectors are truncated, similar to the default behaviour of the REPL:

```julia
julia> A = collect(1:1000)
1000-element Vector{Int64}:
    1
    2
    3
    ⋮
  999
 1000

```

Is there a way to pass the `show_limited=false` argument of [ConsoleLogger](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Logging/#Base.CoreLogging.ConsoleLogger) in the `CI.yml` file ?

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-debug-log-in-gitgub-actions-ci-when-activated/125240/2 "2025-01-29T15:23:28Z")

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So the debug macro is:

```julia
@debug(message, value...)

```

I solve the issue by inserting all my values in the `message` argument (using string interpolation with `$`) instead of `value` args. In my case it was a dictionary named `info` with many `Vector{Float64}` values inside. I created this function:

```julia
function info2debugstr(info)
    mystr = "Content of info dictionary:\n"
    for (key, value) in info
        mystr *= " :$key => $value\n"
    end
    return mystr
end

```

and used it with:

```julia
@debug(info2debugstr(info))

```