# Viewing Neptune events
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You can view the following information for each Neptune event:
+ Resource name
+ Resource type
+ Event category
+ Time of the event
+ A summary message describing the event

You can access events in the following parts of the AWS Management Console:
+ The **Events** page in the Neptune console navigation pane, which shows events from the past 24 hours.
+ The **Recent events** table in the **Logs & events** tab on a DB cluster or DB instance detail page, which can show events for up to the past 14 days.

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

## Viewing events (console)
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**To view Neptune events in the console**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Neptune console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/neptune/home](https://console.aws.amazon.com/neptune/home).

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

   The page displays events from the past 24 hours. You can filter events by source type and event category.

## Viewing events (AWS CLI)
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To view all Neptune events generated in the past hour, run `describe-events` with no parameters:

```
aws neptune describe-events
```

To view events for the past 7 days (10,080 minutes), use the `--duration` parameter:

```
aws neptune describe-events --duration 10080
```

To view events for a specific DB cluster within a time range, use the `--source-identifier`, `--source-type`, `--start-time`, and `--end-time` parameters:

```
aws neptune describe-events \
    --source-identifier {{my-cluster}} \
    --source-type db-cluster \
    --start-time {{2026-04-01T00:00Z}} \
    --end-time {{2026-04-01T23:59Z}}
```

For more information, see [describe-events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/neptune/describe-events.html) in the AWS CLI Command Reference. To retrieve events programmatically, see [DescribeEvents](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/apiref/API_DescribeEvents.html) in the Neptune API Reference.