WTH: How do I track down random actions? Need improved logging

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Like many users of HA, I am integrating multiple systems (Alarm.com, Alexa, Hue, etc). I have Node-Red scripts. I love HA and all the great flexibility. But sometimes I just get random events I cannot explain. My alarm gets set to Away. Why? The lights in the Family Room just come on. What the heck?

I need a solid way of tracking these down. One, integrated way to understand what is happening. I have added logging param to my config. But I still don’t know what is triggering the events. Can HA integrate logs or provide a way to have a Holistic view of my automation events? This would be such a great capability to help all of us DIYers track down the “ghosts” in our systems.

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They can do that already… just not for node red. Chances are, these phantom events are coming from there.

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I found the events and they weren’t as random as I thought. I looked at logs in alarm.com and matched the dates/times with node-red. Then, with some testing and trouble-shooting I found all the issues were in my flows (as expected). Tracking this down would have been easier with all the logs in all the same place, but I did find it. Thank you.