# Viewing VBS Traces

#### Scenarios

CTS records operations of VBS resources, facilitating query, audit, and backtracking.

#### Prerequisites

You have enabled CTS and the tracker is running properly. For details about how to enable CTS, see section "Enabling CTS" in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

#### Key Operations Recorded by CTS

Table 1 VBS operations that can be recorded by CTS
Operation | Resource Type | Trace
--- | --- | ---
Creating a backup | vbs | bksCreateBackup
Deleting a backup | vbs | bksDeleteBackup
Restoring a backup | vbs | bksRestoreBackup
Associating a backup policy | autobackup | addPolicyResource
Disassociating a backup policy | autobackup | deletePolicyResource
Executing a backup policy | autobackup | actionPolicy
Creating a backup policy | autobackup | createPolicy
Deleting a backup policy | autobackup | deletePolicy
Modifying a backup policy | autobackup | modifyPolicy
Creating a backup scheduled by a backup policy | autobackup | scheduleCreateBackup
Automatically deleting a backup scheduled by a backup policy | autobackup | scheduleDeleteBackup
Batch adding or modifying tags of a backup policy | autobackup | batchAddPolicyTag
Batch deleting tags of a backup policy | autobackup | batchDeletePolicyTag
Adding or modifying a backup policy tag | autobackup | addPolicyTag
Deleting a backup policy tag | autobackup | deletePolicyTag

#### Viewing CTS Traces

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and select the desired region and project.
3. Click Service List. Under Management & Deployment, click Cloud Trace Service.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Trace List.
5. On the trace list page, click Filter. In the displayed box, specify Trace Source, Resource Type, and Search By, and click Query to query the specified traces.

   For details about other operations, see section "Querying Real-Time Traces" in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

#### Disabling or Enabling a Tracker

This section describes how to disable an existing tracker on the CTS console. After the tracker is disabled, the system will stop recording operations, but you can still view existing operation records.

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, click and select the desired region and project.
3. Click Service List. Under Management & Deployment, click Cloud Trace Service.
4. Click Tracker in the left pane.
5. Click Disable on the right of the tracker information.
6. Click OK.
7. After the tracker is disabled, its status changes from Disable to Enable. To enable the tracker again, click Enable and then click OK. The system will start recording operations again.

Parent topic: Operation Guide