# Activity

The Activity section displays a recent activity report for Auditing. VM Essentials defines an activity as any major action performed on an instance or server, such as, but not limited to adding a server, deleting a server, provisioning an instance, deleting an instance, creating a backup, etc… This view can be searched and filtered by type, user, and date range.

![Activity page](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007620en_us/GUID-01147D13-F369-4441-B97D-9354DA79DF93-high.png)

**Subtopics**  

- **[Activity](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007620en_us/render?page=GUID-C5D5C9F7-43DD-4E63-AB94-D7268CB223C8.html)**
- **[Alarms](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007620en_us/render?page=GUID-E4F3DF9C-1873-4893-BE81-D85015D67F19.html)**
- **[History](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007620en_us/render?page=GUID-DFFCFAA0-CFE0-433F-ABB4-D05BEFA6E1A8.html)**
