diff --git a/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js b/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
index d423bbd592..3558cda586 100644
--- a/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
+++ b/src/components/structures/MatrixChat.js
@@ -2101,7 +2101,10 @@ export default createReactClass({
             // here.
             await sleep(3000);
 
+            console.log("Seshat: Running the crawler loop.");
+
             if (cancelled) {
+                console.log("Seshat: Cancelling the crawler.");
                 break;
             }
 
@@ -2124,6 +2127,7 @@ export default createReactClass({
                 checkpoint.token, 100, checkpoint.direction);
 
             if (res.chunk.length === 0) {
+                console.log("Seshat: Done with the checkpoint", checkpoint)
                 // We got to the start/end of our timeline, lets just
                 // delete our checkpoint and go back to sleep.
                 await platform.removeCrawlerCheckpoint(checkpoint);
@@ -2223,6 +2227,7 @@ export default createReactClass({
                 // Let us delete the checkpoint in that case, otherwise push
                 // the new checkpoint to be used by the crawler.
                 if (eventsAlreadyAdded === true && newCheckpoint.fullCrawl !== true) {
+                    console.log("Seshat: Checkpoint had already all events added, stopping the crawl", checkpoint);
                     await platform.removeCrawlerCheckpoint(newCheckpoint);
                 } else {
                     this.crawlerChekpoints.push(newCheckpoint);