diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cdc2669..71db064 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
     "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal": "^2.6.1",
     "arcgis-node-util": "^1.4.0",
     "copy-paste": "^1.3.0",
-    "json-stringify-pretty-compact": "^2.0.0"
+    "json-stringify-pretty-compact": "^2.0.0",
+    "open": "^6.4.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/ArcGISTreeProvider.ts b/src/lib/ArcGISTreeProvider.ts
index c883d9d..d6612d4 100644
--- a/src/lib/ArcGISTreeProvider.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ArcGISTreeProvider.ts
@@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ export class ArcGISTreeProvider implements TreeDataProvider<ArcGISItem> {
             return;
         }
 
+        this.logger(`Creating new portal connection to url: ${url}, app: ${appId}`)
         const connection = new PortalConnection({portal: url, appId});
         await connection.authenticate();
+        this.logger(`Authentication successful. Username: ${connection.authentication.username}`)
 
         this.portals.push({
             title: connection.portal,