# Viewing Amazon RDS events
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You can retrieve the following event information for your Amazon Aurora resources:
+ Resource name
+ Resource type
+ Time of the event
+ Message summary of the event

You can access events in the following parts of the AWS Management Console:
+ The **Events** tab, which shows events from the past 24 hours.
+ The **Recent events** table in the **Logs & events** section in the **Databases** tab, which can show events for up to the past 2 weeks.

You can also retrieve events by using the [describe-events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/describe-events.html) AWS CLI command, or the [DescribeEvents](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeEvents.html) RDS API operation. If you use the AWS CLI or the RDS API to view events, you can retrieve events for up to the past 14 days. 

**Note**  
If you need to store events for longer periods of time, you can send Amazon RDS events to EventBridge. For more information, see [Creating a rule that triggers on an Amazon Aurora event](rds-cloud-watch-events.md)

For descriptions of the Amazon Aurora events, see [Amazon RDS event categories and event messagesfor Aurora](USER_Events.Messages.md).

To access detailed information about events using AWS CloudTrail, including request parameters, see [CloudTrail events](logging-using-cloudtrail.md#service-name-info-in-cloudtrail.events).

## Console
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**To view all Amazon RDS events for the past 24 hours**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Events**. 

   The available events appear in a list.

1. (Optional) Enter a search term to filter your results. 

   The following example shows a list of events filtered by the characters **apg**.  
![\[List DB events\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/ListEventsAPG.png)

## AWS CLI
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To view all events generated in the last hour, call [describe-events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/describe-events.html) with no parameters.

```
aws rds describe-events
```

The following sample output shows that a DB cluster instance has started recovery.

```
{
    "Events": [
        {
            "EventCategories": [
                "recovery"
            ], 
            "SourceType": "db-instance", 
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:mycluster-instance-1", 
            "Date": "2022-04-20T15:02:38.416Z", 
            "Message": "Recovery of the DB instance has started. Recovery time will vary with the amount of data to be recovered.", 
            "SourceIdentifier": "mycluster-instance-1"
        }, ...
```

To view all Amazon RDS events for the past 10080 minutes (7 days), call the [describe-events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/describe-events.html) AWS CLI command and set the `--duration` parameter to `10080`.

```
1. aws rds describe-events --duration 10080
```

The following example shows the events in the specified time range for DB instance *test-instance*.

```
aws rds describe-events \
    --source-identifier test-instance \
    --source-type db-instance \
    --start-time 2022-03-13T22:00Z \
    --end-time 2022-03-13T23:59Z
```

The following sample output shows the status of a backup.

```
{
    "Events": [
        {
            "SourceType": "db-instance",
            "SourceIdentifier": "test-instance",
            "EventCategories": [
                "backup"
            ],
            "Message": "Backing up DB instance",
            "Date": "2022-03-13T23:09:23.983Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:test-instance"
        },
        {
            "SourceType": "db-instance",
            "SourceIdentifier": "test-instance",
            "EventCategories": [
                "backup"
            ],
            "Message": "Finished DB Instance backup",
            "Date": "2022-03-13T23:15:13.049Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:test-instance"
        }
    ]
}
```

## API
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You can view all Amazon RDS instance events for the past 14 days by calling the [DescribeEvents](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeEvents.html) RDS API operation and setting the `Duration` parameter to `20160`.