Validate journaling events processing

This topic guides you through validating that events from Adobe Commerce are successfully reaching the journaling endpoint and being processed by the runtime action.

List recent activations

Run the following command to list the 10 most recent activations in Adobe I/O Runtime.

aio rt activations list --limit 10

This masked response shows both triggers and actions along with their status.

09/05 11:36:10 success nodejs:22 0.0.1 ************ warm 15 0 143ms journalseptember/journalaction 
09/05 11:36:10 success trigger 0.0.1 ************ -- -- -- -- everyMin 
09/05 11:35:10 success nodejs:22 0.0.1 ************ warm 6 0 231ms journalseptember/journalaction 
09/05 11:35:10 success trigger 0.0.1 ************ -- -- -- -- everyMin 
09/05 11:32:10 success trigger 0.0.1 ************ -- -- -- -- everyMin

View logs from the action

When an action entry appears (for example, nodejs:22 journalseptember/journalaction), copy its activation ID and run:

aio rt activation logs <ACTIVATION_ID>

The command displays the stdout/stderr logs generated by the action during execution. Use it to debug and verify that journaling logic executed correctly.

Use case: No new events

The activation logs shows 0 Events in logs. This means the action ran successfully but no new events were available.

2025-09-05T06:06:10.574Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Fetching events from journaling endpoint... 
2025-09-05T06:06:10.675Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Last Position >>> ************ 
2025-09-05T06:06:10.713Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Fetched 0 new event(s).

Use case: Event read from Commerce

When an event is read by the journal, the logs display the raw payload and event details. This indicates the journal successfully read a Commerce event (in this example, a productdelete event) and updated the last processed position. In Developer Console > Projects → projectname > stage > Events > Event Browser, the Last read position should match what appears in the logs. This confirms the event was fully processed.

2025-09-05T06:28:10.754Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Raw Payload: { ... } <-- masked payload 
2025-09-05T06:28:10.754Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Event ID: ************
2025-09-05T06:28:10.754Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Type: com.adobe.commerce.productdelete 
2025-09-05T06:28:10.754Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Time: 
2025-09-05T06:27:02.455Z 
2025-09-05T06:28:10.754Z stdout: [journalaction] info: SKU: fcdcd 2025-09-05T06:28:10.782Z stdout: [journalaction] info: Updated last processed position:

Inspect the action result

Run the following command using the same activation ID to view the action's returned result, such as a success confirmation or event details.

aio rt activation result <ACTIVATION_ID>

Validate the end-to-end flow