# How to suppress hail info output **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [April 8, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-suppress-hail-info-output/2596 "2022-04-08T20:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Teculos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/teculos/32/749_2.png) [@Teculos](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Teculos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-suppress-hail-info-output/2596/1 "2022-04-08T20:46:53Z")
Hello - Is there a way to mute the hail console output when calling functions such as .to\_pandas() or .collect()? I was expecting there to be a verbose parameter for these functions to control that but there doesn’t appear to be any (at least that I could find). I just don’t want to see all the `[Stage 3117:> (0 + 10) / 10]` type text. If that does exist somewhere ignore this but I think it could be a nice quality of life addition, not necessary but nice. Additionally, I’ve attempted to just suppress the stdout but that doesn’t appear to have an affect ( as described [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2828953/silence-the-stdout-of-a-function-in-python-without-trashing-sys-stdout-and-resto)). So even attempting a hacky solution doesn’t seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![tpoterba](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/tpoterba/32/61_2.png) [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-suppress-hail-info-output/2596/2 "2022-04-08T20:52:58Z")
I think initializing Hail with `quiet=True` will work: ```auto hl.init(quiet=True) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Teculos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/teculos/32/749_2.png) [@Teculos](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Teculos)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/how-to-suppress-hail-info-output/2596/3 "2022-04-11T00:44:55Z")
It did work! thanks for the help