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For the purposes of debugging, you can attach a query parameter debug=true to a query. Attaching this parameter lets you retrieve the uid attribute for all the entities along with the server_latency and start_ts information under the extensions key of the response.
  • parsing_ns: Latency in nanoseconds to parse the query.
  • processing_ns: Latency in nanoseconds to process the query.
  • encoding_ns: Latency in nanoseconds to encode the JSON response.
  • start_ts: The logical start timestamp of the transaction.
Query with debug as a query parameter 
curl -H "Content-Type: application/dql" http://localhost:8080/query?debug=true -XPOST -d $'{
  tbl(func: allofterms(name@en, "The Big Lebowski")) {
    name@en
  }
}' | python -m json.tool | less
Returns uid and server_latency 
{
  "data": {
    "tbl": [
      {
        "uid": "0x41434",
        "name@en": "The Big Lebowski"
      },
      {
        "uid": "0x145834",
        "name@en": "The Big Lebowski 2"
      },
      {
        "uid": "0x2c8a40",
        "name@en": "Jeffrey \"The Big\" Lebowski"
      },
      {
        "uid": "0x3454c4",
        "name@en": "The Big Lebowski"
      }
    ],
    "extensions": {
      "server_latency": {
        "parsing_ns": 18559,
        "processing_ns": 802990982,
        "encoding_ns": 1177565
      },
      "txn": {
        "start_ts": 40010
      }
    }
  }
}
GraphQL+- has been renamed to Dgraph Query Language (DQL). While application/dql is the preferred value for the Content-Type header, we will continue to support Content-Type: application/graphql+- to avoid making breaking changes.