# Viewing AWS Elemental MediaTailor logs
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MediaTailor emits logs that describe a variety of milestones and activities in channels and playback configurations. You can use these logs to gain visibility into your workflow and to troubleshoot issues with the service. The following topics describe logs and logging options. 

**Topics**
+ [ADS logs](ads-log-format.md)
+ [Manifest logs](log-types.md)
+ [Transcode logs](tm-log-format.md)
+ [Using vended logs](vended-logs.md)
+ [Writing logs to CloudWatch Logs](monitoring-cw-logs.md)
+ [Controlling the volume of ad insertion session logs](log-configuration.md)
+ [Filtering logs and events](logs-filter.md)
+ [Generating debug logs](debug-log-mode.md)