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title: Logs and Timeline
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# Logs and Timeline

Two tabs record what has happened to a scale group: **Audit Logs** captures the Scaler's own state changes, and **Activity Timeline** captures the management actions performed on the group. Both are available once the group has finished its initial deploy (that is, when it is not in the **Creating** or **Deploying Nets** state).

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## Audit Logs

The **Audit Logs** tab is the Scaler's running log of the scale group's state transitions — for example, when nodes are added, removed, or the group enters cooldown.

| Column         | What it shows                             |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Log Created at | When the log entry was recorded.          |
| State          | The state or message the Scaler recorded. |

Use this tab to see, in order, what the Scaler did and when — which is the quickest way to confirm whether a scaling decision actually fired.

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## Activity Timeline

The **Activity Timeline** tab is the audit trail of management actions performed on the scale group. Use the **Select Month** picker to choose the month and year to view.

Recorded events include:

- **Launch** — the scale group was created.
- **Update Policy** — node counts or policies were edited.
- **Resize** — the active node count was changed manually.
- **Terminate** — the scale group was deleted.
- **Attach/Detach Security Group**, **Attach/Detach VPC**, and **Attach/Detach Public IP** — network and security changes.

Each entry records the event, its timestamp, who performed it, and whether it succeeded.

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## Related Resources

| Resource                                                               | Use it for                                  |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| [Manage Scale Groups](/docs/myaccount/auto-scaling/manage)             | Return to the management hub.               |
| [Monitoring](/docs/myaccount/auto-scaling/manage/monitoring)           | See the utilization that triggered scaling. |
| [Node Details](/docs/myaccount/auto-scaling/manage/nodes)              | See nodes that were created and terminated. |
| [Troubleshoot Auto Scaling](/docs/myaccount/auto-scaling/troubleshoot) | Diagnose unexpected scaling behavior.       |

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