# How to read and log the output from a compute shader?
**URL:** https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** shaders, webgpu
**Created:** [October 7, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519 "2024-10-07T19:19:35Z")
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### Author:  [@DrDoom](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/DrDoom)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519/1 "2024-10-07T19:19:35Z")
Does anyone know how I can read and console.log the results from a compute shader? There are examples on the web for how to do this with raw WebGPU but doing this in Threejs isn’t documented yet. I tried calling the .readOnly() method but that does nothing to the proxy object.
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### Author:  [@DrDoom](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/DrDoom)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519/2 "2024-10-07T19:37:36Z")
@sunag given you’re the go to on three’s webgpu api, how can I get this done?
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### Author:  [@sunag](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/sunag)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519/3 "2024-10-08T00:34:51Z")
The data should be stored in a `StorageBufferAttribute` or `StorageInstancedBufferAttribute` in compute process, after computed try access using `await renderer.getArrayBufferAsync( buffer )`.
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### Author:  [@DrDoom](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/DrDoom)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-to-read-and-log-the-output-from-a-compute-shader/72519/4 "2024-10-08T04:38:04Z")
Yes this is it!