How-to: View Toast Notifications

Toasts are a visual element, but depending on what triggered the toast, there may be additional information in either the notifications tray or the backend logs

Depending on the toast, the action may be logged separately in the backend

Resource actions (History/Audit Log) can also tell a story of what occurred if the action changed a resource

When developing custom content extensions for ESP, the toast functions offered from the frontend (api.showNotification(…)) are also visual, but developers can add their own handling to log error events in a persistent location

Some tools that developers can use to log events for later review:

Users have a notification tray in the header bar (Bell icon) that stores system notifications, and will maintain a counter of notifications not yet marked Read/Acknowledged

Standard notifications for all L7|ESP implementations for example include Pipeline completion updates

Notifications can be sent to this tray using both the REST API and with backend extensions

Using the REST API:

From a backend extension: