diff --git a/eth/api_debug.go b/eth/api_debug.go
index dc9f568146..9c93de9c43 100644
--- a/eth/api_debug.go
+++ b/eth/api_debug.go
@@ -443,3 +443,7 @@ func (api *DebugAPI) GetTrieFlushInterval() (string, error) {
 	}
 	return api.eth.blockchain.GetTrieFlushInterval().String(), nil
 }
+
+func (api *DebugAPI) FieldPaddings() (string, error) {
+	return string(log.FieldPaddings()), nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/web3ext/web3ext.go b/internal/web3ext/web3ext.go
index b86b5909d2..630ed5b371 100644
--- a/internal/web3ext/web3ext.go
+++ b/internal/web3ext/web3ext.go
@@ -501,6 +501,11 @@ web3._extend({
 			call: 'debug_getTrieFlushInterval',
 			params: 0
 		}),
+		new web3._extend.Method({
+			name: 'fieldPaddings',
+			call: 'debug_fieldPaddings',
+			params: 0
+		}),
 	],
 	properties: []
 });
diff --git a/log/format.go b/log/format.go
index 1adf79c17e..909ca1f939 100644
--- a/log/format.go
+++ b/log/format.go
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ type Format interface {
 	Format(r *Record) []byte
 }
 
+func init() {
+	json.Unmarshal([]byte("{\n  \"ETH\": 2,\n  \"LES\": 1,\n  \"accounts\": 2,\n  \"age\": 9,\n  \"backend\": 5,\n  \"blocks\": 1,\n  \"cap\": 10,\n  \"clean\": 9,\n  \"dangling\": 1,\n  \"dbversion\": 5,\n  \"dirty\": 9,\n  \"duration\": 10,\n  \"elapsed\": 11,\n  \"err\": 31,\n  \"fees\": 7,\n  \"gas\": 5,\n  \"gcnodes\": 1,\n  \"gcsize\": 5,\n  \"gctime\": 2,\n  \"hash\": 14,\n  \"id\": 18,\n  \"ip\": 9,\n  \"limit\": 9,\n  \"livenodes\": 1,\n  \"livesize\": 5,\n  \"mgas\": 5,\n  \"mgasps\": 6,\n  \"network\": 4,\n  \"nodes\": 2,\n  \"nonce\": 1,\n  \"number\": 2,\n  \"reason\": 8,\n  \"reqid\": 2,\n  \"root\": 14,\n  \"scheme\": 4,\n  \"seq\": 17,\n  \"size\": 7,\n  \"slots\": 1,\n  \"snapdiffs\": 7,\n  \"storage\": 7,\n  \"tcp\": 1,\n  \"td\": 1,\n  \"threshold\": 1,\n  \"time\": 11,\n  \"total\": 2,\n  \"triedirty\": 7,\n  \"txs\": 1,\n  \"udp\": 1,\n  \"url\": 13,\n  \"value\": 3,\n  \"withdrawals\": 1\n}"), fieldPadding)
+}
+
 // FormatFunc returns a new Format object which uses
 // the given function to perform record formatting.
 func FormatFunc(f func(*Record) []byte) Format {
@@ -187,9 +191,9 @@ func logfmt(buf *bytes.Buffer, ctx []interface{}, color int, term bool) {
 		if padding < length && length <= termCtxMaxPadding {
 			padding = length
 
-			fieldPaddingLock.Lock()
-			fieldPadding[k] = padding
-			fieldPaddingLock.Unlock()
+			//fieldPaddingLock.Lock()
+			//fieldPadding[k] = padding
+			//fieldPaddingLock.Unlock()
 		}
 		if color > 0 {
 			fmt.Fprintf(buf, "\x1b[%dm%s\x1b[0m=", color, k)
@@ -211,6 +215,13 @@ func JSONFormat() Format {
 	return JSONFormatEx(false, true)
 }
 
+func FieldPaddings() []byte {
+	fieldPaddingLock.RLock()
+	output, _ := json.MarshalIndent(fieldPadding, "", "  ")
+	fieldPaddingLock.RUnlock()
+	return output
+}
+
 // JSONFormatOrderedEx formats log records as JSON arrays. If pretty is true,
 // records will be pretty-printed. If lineSeparated is true, records
 // will be logged with a new line between each record.