# Logging user messages to console (botfront / rasa-webchat)

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/logging-user-messages-to-console-botfront-rasa-webchat/58202>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [May 4, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/logging-user-messages-to-console-botfront-rasa-webchat/58202 "2023-05-04T12:10:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ecu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@ecu](https://forum.rasa.com/u/ecu)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/logging-user-messages-to-console-botfront-rasa-webchat/58202/1 "2023-05-04T12:10:21Z")

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Hello everyone! I have a question that I couldn’t resolve. I want to log users’ messages to the console. While I can log the chatbot’s replies to the console, the same logic doesn’t work with users’ messages.

This is the code I have for the chatbot that works:

```auto
function botMessageEvent(e) {
        console.log('the bot said something: ' + e.text);
....
}

.....
onSocketEvent: {
                    'bot_uttered': botMessageEvent,

```

and

in credentials.yml I have

```auto
socketio:
  user_message_evt: user_uttered
  bot_message_evt: bot_uttered

```

I tried this for user messages and it didn’t work:

```auto
function userMessageEvent(e) {
        console.log('the user said something: ' + e.text);
}

....
 onSocketEvent: {
                    'bot_uttered': botMessageEvent,
                    'user_uttered': userMessageEvent,

```

Does anyone have an idea about how to resolve this?

I would appreciate your help. Thank you!