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# Help and support

Find support resources, report security or community violations, and learn how to contribute to Obsidian.

Find support resources, report security or community violations, and learn how to contribute to Obsidian.

# Questions and advice

If you have a question about how to use Obsidian, or want to get to know other Obsidian users, you can join one of our community channels:

# Report bugs and request features

If you want to suggest a feature in Obsidian, head over to Feature requests.

If you want to report a bug in Obsidian, head over to Bug reports. Bug reports are moved to the Bug graveyard once they're resolved.

# Collect debug information

When you encounter a bug or need assistance from Obsidian support, providing debug information can be very helpful. Here's how to obtain it:

  1. Open the Command palette.
  2. Type Show debug info.
  3. Select the highlighted Show debug info option.
  4. Select Copy to clipboard.
  5. Paste the copied information into your bug report or Obsidian support email.

# Check startup time

You can check how long Obsidian takes to start by using the Startup time feature.

  1. Open Settings → General → Advanced.
  2. Next to Notify if startup takes longer than expected, select the timer icon.
  3. A Startup time window will appear, showing detailed timing information:
    • Total app startup: Overall launch time.
    • Initialization: Time spent loading the app itself.
    • Vault: Time to load your vault files.
    • Workspace: Time to restore tabs and layout.
    • Core plugins: Time used by active core plugins.
  4. You can select Copy to clipboard to copy the report for troubleshooting or sharing.

Additionally, you can toggle Notify if startup takes longer than expected to receive a warning if startup is unusually slow.

# Capture console logs

When you need to report a bug related to an Obsidian plugin or when requested by Obsidian support to provide log information, you may need to access the Obsidian console from within the Obsidian application. Here’s how to do it based on your operating system:

  • Windows/Linux: Ctrl+Shift+I
  • macOS: Command+Option+I

[!info]+ Alternative access method If using the Obsidian frame Window frame style, you can also access the Obsidian console via the title menu.

Once you've opened the developer console:

  1. Select console in the top menu.
  2. Choose the errors side menu option. Any errors will be displayed as # errors.
  3. Select one of the red error messages.
  4. Choose the option to Save as... This will save all the errors in the console.
  5. Save the log file to your device.
  6. Attach the log file to your bug report or Obsidian support email.

[!warning]+ Mobile console access Mobile devices and tablets have limited access to their developer consoles. For these users, we recommend using the community plugin Logstravaganza to automatically generate the console log data in a markdown note.

# Contact Obsidian support

Obsidian offers email support only for inquiries about commercial licenses, your account, payment, and add-on services (Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish). If you need help with any of those topics, email the Obsidian team.

# Report a security issue

If you've discovered a security issue in Obsidian, or if you suspect that a plugin is malicious, please email the Obsidian team.

# Report a Code of Conduct violation

Whether you're a victim or witness of a violation of our Community code of conduct, you can report the incident to our moderator team

Report the incident on one of the following community channels:

# Contributing to Obsidian

Interested in applying some skills and free time to Obsidian? Here is where we could really use your assistance:

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