# Monitoring channels
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**Topics**
+ [Monitoring the health of channels](#monitoring-for-failure)
+ [Monitoring channel activity at the node](#monitoring-channel-activity-at-the-node)
+ [Viewing channel history](#viewing-channel-history)

## Monitoring the health of channels
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You can monitor the status of channels as they run. 

1. In the AWS Elemental Conductor Live main menu, choose **Channels **. Information is color-coded as follows:
   + Yellow background shading indicates that there are active alerts on the channel that you have not yet read and suppressed. 
   + Red background shading indicates that the status of the channel is Error.

1. Display more information if you want:
   + Choose any red icon to go to the **Status – Messages** page. This page shows all messages for this channel. The error message is shaded red and have the same red icon.
   + Choose any orange icon to go to the **Status – Alerts** page. This page shows detailed information about any alerts for this channel.

## Monitoring channel activity at the node
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You can view information about the channel activity that is happening at any worker node. 

1. In the Conductor Live main menu, choose **Channels **. 

1. Select any channel by its ID or name. The **Channels Details** page appears. 

When a channel is running, information appears in three tabs: **Status**, **Parameters**, and **Logs**. 

Elemental Live constantly forwards `_eme` and `_ eme_ve` logs to Conductor Live.

Note that channel logs are displayed for 24 hours. Logs that are from 24 hours to one-week old are held in zip files that you can unzip if needed.

## Viewing channel history
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You can view a summarized history of the channel.

On the **Channel Details** page, choose **History**.

Time is shown in the time zone currently configured on the Conductor Live. The timeline captures when a channel gets created, started, and stopped, and also includes node information.