# Viewing logs, events, and streams in the Amazon RDS console
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Amazon RDS integrates with AWS services to show information about logs, events, and database activity streams in the RDS console.

The **Logs & events** tab for your Aurora DB cluster shows the following information:
+ **Auto scaling policies and activities** – Shows policies and activities relating to the Aurora Auto Scaling feature. This information only appears in the **Logs & events** tab at the cluster level. 
+ **Amazon CloudWatch alarms** – Shows any metric alarms that you have configured for the DB instance in your Aurora cluster. If you haven't configured alarms, you can create them in the RDS console. 
+ **Recent events** – Shows a summary of events (environment changes) for your Aurora DB instance or cluster. For more information, see [Viewing Amazon RDS events](USER_ListEvents.md).
+ **Logs** – Shows database log files generated by a DB instance in your Aurora cluster. For more information, see [Monitoring Amazon Aurora log files](USER_LogAccess.md).

The **Configuration** tab displays information about database activity streams.

**To view logs, events, and streams for your AuroraDB cluster in the RDS console**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Databases**.

1. Choose the name of the Aurora DB cluster that you want to monitor.

   The database page appears. The following example shows an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster named `apga`.  
![\[Database page with monitoring tab shown\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/cluster-with-monitoring-tab.png)

1. Scroll down and choose **Configuration**.

   The following example shows the status of the database activity streams for your cluster.  
![\[Enhanced Monitoring\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/cluster-das.png)

1. Choose **Logs & events**.

   The Logs & events section appears.  
![\[Database page with Logs & events tab shown\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/cluster-logs-and-events-subpage.png)

1. Choose a DB instance in your Aurora cluster, and then choose **Logs & events** for the instance.

   The following example shows that the contents are different between the DB instance page and the DB cluster page. The DB instance page shows logs and alarms.  
![\[Logs & events page\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/cluster-instance-logs-and-events-subpage.png)