diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/blob-upload.ts b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/blob-upload.ts
index 4b003fbd..04232594 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/blob-upload.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/blob-upload.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ export async function uploadZipToBlobStorage(
   core.info(`is the upload stream readable? ${uploadStream.readable}`)
   core.info(`is the upload stream writable? ${uploadStream.writable}`)
   core.info(`are we exceeding the max concurrency? ${maxConcurrency}`)
+  // is the blob client ready?
+  core.info(`blob client props: ${blockBlobClient.url}`)
   try {
     core.info(
       '1 Even more beginning upload of artifact content to blob storage'
diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/upload-artifact.ts b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/upload-artifact.ts
index ce0b5698..30b6978c 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/upload-artifact.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/upload-artifact.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ export async function uploadArtifact(
 
   return createZipUploadStream(zipSpecification, options?.compressionLevel)
     .then(async zipUploadStream => {
+      core.info(`starting upload to blob here`)
+      core.info(`zipuploadstream looks like this: ${zipUploadStream}`)
       return uploadZipToBlobStorage(
         createArtifactResp.signedUploadUrl,
         zipUploadStream