Support

Yes. The extension is free to install and use from the Chrome Web Store. If it saves you time, you can optionally support development on Ko-fi — but that's entirely up to you.

No. Everything the extension captures stays on your device. It uses Chrome's local storage APIs and never transmits data to any server — including the developer's. There's no analytics and no third-party services. See the privacy policy for the full detail.

Awesome SAML Tracer is a modern, Manifest V3 rebuild. On top of decoding SAML messages, it adds a friendly-name attribute table, a built-in JWT decoder, self-contained HTML reports, an errors-only view, domain highlighting and pinned headers. It reads and writes the same JSON export format, so captures move freely between the two tools.

A few things to check:

• The extension captures in real time — it can't see requests that happened before it was installed or before the window was open. Trigger the SSO login again with the extension running.
• Make sure the tab performing the login is active.
• If you're on the SAML view and expect non-SAML requests, switch to the All Traffic view.
• Check that capture isn't paused — the toolbar button should show ⏸ (pause), not ▶ (resume).

Yes. Awesome SAML Tracer imports and exports the same JSON format as the original SAML-tracer. Use the 📂 Import button or drag-and-drop a .json file anywhere onto the window. Files exported from Awesome SAML Tracer also open in the original extension.

Chrome 111 or newer. It also runs on Chromium-based browsers that support Manifest V3 extensions and the Chrome Web Store, such as recent versions of Edge and Brave.

The extension requests only what it needs to observe SAML traffic locally:

• webRequest — to observe network requests and detect SAML messages
• storage — to save captures and settings locally on your device
• tabs — to open the extension window and manage its badge
• downloads — to save HTML reports to your Downloads folder
• <all_urls> — SAML SSO can occur on any domain, so it must observe requests to any URL

Full detail is in the privacy policy.

You have three options:

• HTML report (📄) — a self-contained file saved to Downloads that opens in any browser, no internet needed.
• Copy — select an entry and click Copy in the detail pane to grab it as formatted plain text for chat or email.
• Export (⬆) — a JSON file the recipient can re-open in either SAML tracer extension.

Up to 200 captures at a time. When that limit is reached, the oldest entries are dropped automatically. You can clear everything at any time with the ⊘ Clear button.

Open an issue on the GitHub issue tracker. Including your Chrome version and, where possible, an exported JSON capture or HTML report makes bugs much faster to reproduce and fix.