On 2/23/21 15:13, Linebarger, John wrote: > Where is the instance Action Log stored (the one you can see on the > Horizon dashboard if you select an instance) and how can it be > externally accessed, either by CLI or HTTPS or in any other way? It > doesn’t seem to map to anything stored in the Nova logs in > /var/log/nova, at least that I can see. We want to send instance Action > Logs to an ELK stack for indexing and display, but are not yet able to > figure out how to do so. Hi, The instance actions are stored in the nova database and are accessible via the REST API [1] or the 'openstack server event' CLI commands [2]. Just as a FYI if you didn't already know, nova emits notifications [3] which you can also use to collect various data. HTH, -melanie [1] https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/#servers-actions-servers-os-instance-actions [2] https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest/cli/command-objects/server-event.html [3] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/reference/notifications.html