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Today I cracked open Debug Logs for the first time. It was intimidating at first—like staring into the Matrix—but I finally figured out how to use them.
I was troubleshooting why a flow wasn’t updating a field. Turns out, a validation rule was firing quietly in the background. I would’ve never known without the debug log.
Here’s what helped:
Use Setup > Debug Logs to add yourself (or a user)
Trigger the issue manually
Open the log and look for your Flow name or error messages
Once you get the hang of it, logs are like a behind-the-scenes tour of everything Salesforce is doing. It’s messy but powerful.
