# Monitoring an Amazon Neptune cluster
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Amazon Neptune supports the following monitoring methods.
+ **Amazon CloudWatch** – Amazon Neptune automatically sends metrics to CloudWatch and also supports CloudWatch Alarms. For more information, see [Monitoring Neptune Using Amazon CloudWatch](cloudwatch.md).
+ **AWS CloudTrail** – Amazon Neptune supports API logging using CloudTrail. For more information, see [Logging Amazon Neptune API Calls with AWS CloudTrail](cloudtrail.md).
+ **Tagging** – Use tags to add metadata to your Neptune resources and track usage based on tags. For more information, see [Tagging Amazon Neptune resources](tagging.md).
+ **Audit log files** – View, download, or watch database log files using the Neptune console. For more information, see [Using Audit Logs with Amazon Neptune Clusters](auditing.md).
+ **Instance status** – Check the health of a Neptune instance's graph database engine, find out what version of the engine is installed, and obtain other engine status information using the [instance status API](access-graph-status.md).