# Monitor stack progress
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This section describes how to monitor a stack deployment that is currently in progress. CloudFormation provides a detailed, chronological list of deployment events, showing the progress and any issues encountered during the deployment.

**Topics**
+ [View stack events](view-stack-events.md)
+ [View stack events by operation](view-stack-events-by-operation.md)
+ [View stack deployment timeline graph](stack-deployment-timeline-graph.md)
+ [Understand stack creation events](stack-resource-configuration-complete.md)
+ [Monitor stack updates](using-cfn-updating-stacks-monitor-stack.md)
+ [Continue rolling back an update](using-cfn-updating-stacks-continueupdaterollback.md)
+ [Determine the cause of a stack failure](determine-root-cause-for-stack-failures.md)
+ [Stack failure options](stack-failure-options.md)