# Monitoring a channel using Amazon CloudWatch Logs
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MediaLive produces channel logs that contain detailed information about activity in a channel. The logs provide a sequential description of activity that occurs in the channel. These logs can be useful when the information in alerts ([Monitoring a channel or multiplex using Amazon CloudWatch Events](monitoring-via-cloudwatch.md)) does not provide enough information to resolve an issue on the channel. 

**Topics**
+ [About channel logs](monitoring-logs-about.md)
+ [Enabling channel encoder logs](enabling-disabling-logs.md)
+ [Working with logs](working-with-logs.md)