Activity and Notifications help you understand what happened in a CanaryWP workspace and what requires attention.
Activity Log
Activity Log is the operational history of the workspace.
Events can include actions involving:
- Imports
- Instance lifecycle
- Backups
- Domains
- Plugins
- Themes
- WordPress
- Site Testing
- Connected/source sites
- System operations
Why Activity matters
When something changes unexpectedly, Activity can help answer:
- What happened?
- When did it happen?
- Which instance was affected?
- Which workflow caused it?
- Was another operation happening immediately beforehand?
Search and filtering
Use available filtering to narrow the event list by criteria such as:
- Category
- Instance
- Date
- Search text
For troubleshooting, start with the approximate time the problem began.
Instance-specific activity
When investigating one environment, open its Activity area to remove unrelated workspace events.
Export
Use Activity export when you need an external record for:
- Audit
- Investigation
- Incident review
- Support
- Internal reporting
Protect exported records according to your organization’s data policies.
Notifications
Notifications surface operational information requiring awareness.
Notifications may represent:
- Success
- Warning
- Failure
- System event
Reviewing a notification
Do not dismiss an alert based only on its title.
Open the linked resource when one is available and inspect the related:
- Instance
- Test
- Backup
- Workflow
- Activity
Read state
Mark notifications as read after they have been reviewed.
Mark all read should be used when the existing notification set has genuinely been reviewed or intentionally cleared.
Notification access
Notification visibility should respect the appropriate account, workspace, and permission scope.
A notification intended for one user should not be used as a substitute for a workspace-wide event; workspace-wide operational information belongs in appropriately scoped activity or notifications.
Troubleshooting from an alert
For failures:
- Open the linked resource.
- Review Activity.
- Review the detailed error.
- Inspect logs where applicable.
- Determine whether the underlying action can safely be retried.