The system records a detailed log of all the transactions happening to your application servers. The list of transactions logged by the system includes:
Provision application server
Startup application server
Stop application server
Resize application server without reboot
Configure Operating System
Build disk
Resize disk
Format disk
Destroy disk
Take backup
Convert backup
Restore backup
Destroy backups
Destroy application server
Destroy template
Download template
Update firewall
To view transactions for an application server:
Go to your Control Panel > Cloud > Application Servers menu.
Click the label of the application server you're interested in.
The details screen for that application server shows recent transactions in the Activity Log section.
To cancel pending tasks, click the Cancel Pending button.
To cancel the TakeBackup transaction which is running longer and exceeding the time set for a zombie transaction:
Go to your Control Panel > Cloud > Virtual Servers menu.
Click the label of the required virtual server.
On the following page, in the Activity Log section, hover over the icon of the transaction and then click that appears on the icon of this transaction.
Please note that this option becomes available if the transaction has been running for the period of time specified in the Zombie transaction time parameter, which can be found at your Control Panel > Admin > Settings > Configuration icon.
In the dialog box, click Proceed.
The rollback is executed starting from the command which has been canceled.
You can also view the details of a particular log item by clicking its Ref number. The page that loads shows the log output and the following details:
date - time in the [YYYY][MM][DD]T[hh][mm][ss]Z format
action - the action name
status - the action status (Complete, Warn, Pending, or Failed)
ref - the log item's Ref number
target - the action target
started at - the time when the action was started
completed at - the time when the action was completed
compute resource - the label of compute resource
initiator - the user who initiated the action
If you want to see only the detailed output, you can hide log info with the arrow button in the upper right corner.