# Monitoring overview

The **Monitoring** section in AgentLink provides visibility into all activity across your MCP Gateway — from agent tool calls to system events and audit actions.

Monitoring helps teams:

- Investigate tool executions
- Track user activity
- Detect anomalies and security issues
- Stream real-time events into external observability tools


## Tabs overview

| Tab | Description |
|  --- | --- |
| **Audits** | High-level administrative actions like user logins, tenant changes, and account modifications. |
| **Logs** | Detailed runtime logs of MCP tool executions, performance metrics, and outcomes. |
| **Stream** | Real-time streaming configuration for pushing logs to third-party systems. |


## Key features

- **Unified visibility** across all AI agent and user activity
- **Filters and search** for quick investigation
- **Structured JSON logs** for easy integration with SIEM tools
- **Downloadable logs** for offline analysis
- **Real-time streaming** for continuous monitoring


## Example use cases

- Auditing AI agent activity by user or tool
- Tracking failed tool executions
- Monitoring performance metrics over time
- Streaming logs to Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch


## Related topics

- [Logs](/agent-link/monitoring/logs)
- [Streaming Logs](/agent-link/monitoring/streaming)