Activities for assets
For some asset types, you can see the activities of each asset in projects and catalogs. The activities graph shows the history of the events that are performed on the asset for some tools and services. An event is an action that changes or copies the asset. For example, editing the asset description is an event, but viewing the asset is not an event.
Requirements and restrictions
You can view the activities of assets under the following circumstances.
Required service
Activities require the IBM Knowledge Catalog service. However, activities are not available with all IBM Knowledge Catalog plans. See IBM Knowledge Catalog offering plans.
Workspaces
You can view the asset activities in these workspaces:
- Projects
- Catalogs
Limitations
Activities have the following limitations:
- Activities graphs are currently available only for Watson Machine Learning models and data assets.
- Activities graphs do not appear in Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 browsers.
- Only assets that are created after activities tracking began on 20 July 2018, have activities graphs.
Activities events
To view activities for an asset in a project or catalog, click the asset name and click 
. The activities panel shows a timeline of events.
Summary information about the asset shows where asset was created, how many times it was added to projects or catalogs, what the last event for it was, and when the last event happened. The first event for each asset is its creation.
Activities events can describe actions that are applicable to all asset types or actions that are specific to an asset type:
- General events
- Events specific to Watson Machine Learning models
- Events specific to data assets from files and connected data assets
You can see this type of information about each event:
- Where: In which catalog or project the event occurred.
- Who: The name of the user who performed the action, unless the action was automated. Automated actions generate events, but don't show usernames.
- What: A description of the action. Some events show details about the original and updated values.
- When: The date and time of the event.
Activities also track relationships between assets. In the activities panel, the creation of a new asset based on the original asset is shown at the top of the list. For example, when you add an existing catalog asset to a project or publish an existing project asset to a catalog, you create a new asset that is a copy of the original asset. Click See details to view asset details.
Watch this short video to see how to track activities of a data asset.
This video provides a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation.
Watch this video to see how to track the activities of a machine learning model.
This video provides a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation.
General events
You can see these general events:
- Published to a catalog from a project
- Added to a project from a catalog
- Name updated
- Description updated
- Tags updated
- Classification updated
- Terms updated
- Membership updated
- Privacy updated
- Owner updated
Events specific to Watson Machine Learning models
Activities tracking is available for all Watson Machine Learning service plans, however, you wouldn't see events for actions that are not available with your plan.
In addition to general events, you can see these events that are specific to models:
- Model created
- Model deployed
- Model re-evaluated
- Model retrained
- Set as active model
A model asset shows this information in the Created from field, depending on how it was created:
- The name of the associated data asset
- The name of the associated connection asset
- The project name where it was created
Events specific to data assets from files and connected data assets
In addition to general events, you can see these events that are specific to data assets from files and connected data assets:
- Added to project from a Data Refinery flow
- Added to a project from a file
- Added to a catalog from a file
- Data classes updated
- Schema updated by a Data Refinery flow
- Profile created
- Profile updated
- Profile deleted
- Downloaded
A data asset shows this information in the Created from field, depending on how it was created:
- The name of the Data Refinery flow that created it
- Its associated connection name
- The project name or catalog name where it was created or came from
Parent topic: Finding and viewing an asset in a catalog