- [Home page](https://www.brimit.com/) - [Blog](https://www.brimit.com/blog) # Dive into Sitecore CDP - Debugging tools [#How-to](https://www.brimit.com/blog?categories=#How-to) [DXP](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=DXP) [Sergey Baranov](https://www.brimit.com/blog/author?authors=Sergey%20Baranov) on October 8, 2021 **Sitecore CDP** provides a lot of tools/options for debugging and in this articles I will show you best of them that I always use during development. #### Access to user context information. The easiest way to access to full user context information is to create empty decision model and click **Test Canvas** button. Once **Test Canvas** tool is opening you just need to find user that you want to test and user information will be loaded automatically:![Sitecore CDP - Debug user context](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/decision_user_context.jpg) Another way to do it is using *Postman* and **Batch API** of Sitecore CDP. Before send any data to **Batch API** you need to setup **Authorization Basic** header for your requests. Otherwise you will receive an error: ``` { "status": 401, "code": 401, "message": "Authentication required.", "developerMessage": "Authentication with a valid API Key and API Secret is required.", "moreInfo": "mailto:support@boxever.com" } ``` In your CDP account navigate to **System Settings -> API Access** and copy **Client Key** and **API Token** values. You can generate valid auth header by using [this online tool](https://www.blitter.se/utils/basic-authentication-header-generator/), use **Client Key** as ***Username*** and **API Token** as ***Password***. Or you can generate it in your javascript yourself, basic auth pattern is: ``` (`${username}:${password}`).toString("base64") ``` See more information about athentification here: [https://developer.boxever.com/v2.0/reference/authentication](https://developer.boxever.com/v2.0/reference/authentication) If you don`t know you current **Guest Id** value, you can find your Guest CDP-address by email with *GET* request to **https://api.boxever.com/v2/guests?email={user\_email}** endpoint with valid auth header: ![Sitecore CDP - Find user by email](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/3/search_by_email.png) In response you will find link for your guest. If you hit *GET* request with Authorization header to this link you will get all information about your user *(the same as by using Test Canvas tool)*:![Sitecore CDP - Batch API](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/postman.jpg) #### How to debug javascript? Sirecore CDP has **print** function that is an analogue of **console.log** function of browsers: ![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/print.jpg) #### How to debug Decision model nodes? By using **Test Canvas** tool you can execute your decision model in context of any user and look into **Full Response** tab where you find all information about your model execution and input/output values for each node: ![Sitecore CDP - Decision model response](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/response.jpg) #### How to debug Web experiences and experiments? **Sitecore CDP** provides awesome tool for Web experiences and experiments debugging. If you open **Build** tab, click **Preview** button, populate inputs with your website page (you can also optionally add context user) your website page will be opened and you will see **QA Tool** with all statistics and valdations. If something goes wrong during experience execution you will see detailed error in this tool: ![Sitecore CDP - Experience preview](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/experience.jpg) ![Sitecore CDP - QA Tool](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/qa_tool.jpg) For detailed debugging of your web experience/experiment you can navigate to **Advanced Edit** section and use **Data** tab for execution your exrepience and have access to all entities. Alternatively  you can use **Preview API** button where you see the same but in JSON format: ![](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/experience_advanced_edit.jpg) #### How to debug Triggered experiences and experiments? The first question that you will most likely have when using Triggered experience/experiment is *"How can I access to context event (that I use as a trigger) in linked Decision model"*? This context event information is accessible in **entity** variable. So you can easy use **print(entity);** in your Decision model and then see in **Experience execution** logs format of this entity and use it as an example how to get corresponding field values in javascript. Alternatively you can see **entity** format in **flowExecutionRequestContext** variable in **Experience execution** content: ![Sitecore CDP - Triggered experience](https://www.brimit.com/-/media/project/brimit/blog/2021/x3mxray/2/triggered.jpg) Here goes the table of contents for my Sitecore CDP blog series: - [Introduction](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-0-intruduction) - [How to connect Sitecore CDP to website](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-1-how-to-connect-to-website) - Debugging tools - [How to pass extended data to Sitecore CDP](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-3-how-to-pass-extended-data-to-sitecore-cdp) - [How to use Data System connections (Decision model with Content Hub products)](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-5-how-to-use-data-system-connections) - [How to use AI connections (Web experience with Azure Cognitive Services)](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-4-how-to-use-ai-connections) - [How to use Destination connections (Triggered experience webhook)](https://www.brimit.com/blog/cdp-6-how-to-use-destination-connections) - How to use External service connections (Flows with External Service) - Remarketing with Sitecore CDP and Facebook Ads ###### Author ![sergey-200](https://www.brimit.com/-/jssmedia/feature/blogs/authors/sergey-200.jpg?h=197&iar=0&w=200&hash=0D636570F87F1C13C39E06EB19D9DF06) Sergey Baranov Sitecore MVP/ Senior Sitecore Developer [Sergey Baranov](https://www.brimit.com/blog/author?authors=Sergey%20Baranov) ###### More By Categories [#Events](https://www.brimit.com/blog?categories=#Events) [#How-to](https://www.brimit.com/blog?categories=#How-to) [#News](https://www.brimit.com/blog?categories=#News) [#Guides](https://www.brimit.com/blog?categories=#Guides) ###### More by Platform [Data and AI](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=Data%20and%20AI) [DXP](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=DXP) [E-commerce](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=E-commerce) [Internet of Things](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=Internet%20of%20Things) [Sales and marketing automation](https://www.brimit.com/blog?platforms=Sales%20and%20marketing%20automation) #### More on Sitecore ![How Vercel Will Help You Save Effort When Deploying Sophisticated Sitecore Projects](https://www.brimit.com/-/jssmedia/project/brimit/blog/2024/vercel_cover-image.png) #Guides #How-to DXP E-commerce ##### How Vercel Will Help You Save Effort When Deploying Sophisticated Sitecore Projects Optimize and accelerate the development and deployment of complex multisite Sitecore projects. 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