Logging meaningful information from GraphQL queries run via Explorer

I am having trouble getting data from the API defined in my api datasource settings. Keep getting nulls on the data. I found an article for turning on logging, I did it, but it really makes a mess of the terminal logs. I am mainly interested in seeing if the query client is actually hitting my API(s).

This is what I had turned on, and it was a mess:

const myPlugin = {
// Fires whenever a GraphQL request is received from a client.
async requestDidStart(requestContext) {
console.log(‘Request started! Query:\n’ + requestContext.request.query);

return {
  // Fires whenever Apollo Server will parse a GraphQL
  // request to create its associated document AST.
  async parsingDidStart(requestContext) {
    console.log('Parsing started!');
  },

  // Fires whenever Apollo Server will validate a
  // request's document AST against your GraphQL schema.
  async validationDidStart(requestContext) {
    console.log('Validation started!');
  },
};

},
};