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title: 'Tracking Activity in MediaLab'
description: 'How to use the Activities panel to monitor active users, workflows, shares, upload links and reports in your Lab.'
url: https://www.medialab.co/support/core/organizing-media/tracking-activity-in-medialab
---

# Tracking Activity in MediaLab

MediaLab gives you a single place to monitor everything happening in your Lab; file activity,
user actions, shared links, uploads, and reporting. All of this lives under the Activities button,
located next to Settings in the top navigation.

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Clicking Activities opens a panel organized into several sections, each focused on a different
type of tracking.

### Active monitoring

At the top of the Activities panel, you can see what’s happening right now:
- **Active users** – view which users are currently active in your Lab.
- **Active uploads** – see ongoing uploads in real time, broken down by user.
- **Active livestreams** – monitor any livestreams currently in progress.

### Workflow manager

The Workflow manager section provides a complete overview of files and actions moving
through your Lab:
- **Incoming items** – all files that have arrived in your Lab.
- **Video queue** – the status of videos currently being processed.
- **Push queue** – a record of files sent to external push destinations.
- **FTP uploads** – activity from FTP upload accounts.
- **Comments** – an overview of comments left on items.
- **Webhooks** – the status and history of webhook activity.

Use the Workflow manager when you need a centralized view of file flow and processing within
MediaLab.

### Share

The Share section lets you review activity related to specific folders and links. If someone has
viewed or downloaded files through a link you created, the activity appears here:
- **Personal links** – activity on links shared with specific individuals. Because each
personal link is tied to a known user, you can track their actions in much more depth,
including who viewed or downloaded which files and when.
- **Signup links** – activity on links that require recipients to sign up before access.
- **Public share links** – activity on links open to anyone with the URL. Tracking here is
more general, since recipients are not individually identified, you’ll see overall usage
information rather than user-specific actions.
- **Embed links** – activity on links used to embed content elsewhere.

### Upload links

The Upload links section tracks activity on any links you’ve created to receive files:
- **Upload links** – see when and by whom files were uploaded.
- **Upload signup links** – activity on upload links that require a signup.

### Reporting

The Reporting section gives you higher-level insights into your Lab’s usage:
- **Media overview** – a summary of media activity across your Lab.
- **Account** – account-level usage information.
- **Access reports** – reports on who has accessed what.
- **Media reports** – detailed reports on specific media items.

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**Note:** Some Activities sections may only be available to administrators or users with the
appropriate permissions.