Activity
Activity is the one place to answer “what happened, in order, across everything?” It’s a chronological stream of every event HostAtlas knows about — from a metric alert firing on a single host, to a deploy landing, to a user changing an alert rule.
What you see
Section titled “What you see”Under Activity in the sidebar (route /timeline). The page is a single scrollable timeline with:
- Timestamp (relative and absolute UTC).
- Event type — alert, incident, deploy, pipeline, config change, agent connect/disconnect, backup run, user action, and more.
- Server / group / user the event pertains to.
- One-line summary and a link into the detail page for that event.
- Severity or outcome badge where applicable.
Filters across the top:
- Type — pick one or many event categories.
- Server — restrict to one host.
- User — restrict to actions performed by a specific team member.
- Time window — quick presets and a custom range.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”- Filter and share — the URL captures the current filter, so you can send a colleague a link that lands on the same view.
- Drill in — every event links to its dedicated page (alert, incident, deploy, server, and so on).
- Group by day — the default view; toggle to a flat stream if you prefer.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”- Events are collected from every subsystem — the alert engine, agents, deploy hooks, user actions in the web UI and API, backup runs, and more.
- Ordering is by event timestamp (when it happened on the source), not ingestion time, so out-of-order agent uploads still line up correctly.
- Retention follows your plan: on-screen filtering covers the full retention window. For very old events you can export via the Reports page or the audit-log export.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Alerts & Incidents — the biggest source of events on the stream.
- Deploys — deploy markers appear here alongside everything else.
- Logs — on-demand log tails when the timeline hints at a problem.