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Docs for netbirdio/netbird#8615 (Management records peer connection events) and netbirdio/dashboard#896 (Connection History tab on the peer page). Related to netbirdio/netbird#8616.

What changed

Peers, Connection History (new page)

• Explains what the history is for and what "connected" means: the peer's connection to Management, not tunnels between peers, with pointers to netbird status and Traffic Events Logging for those.
• Lists the two events, peer.connect and peer.disconnect, what triggers each, and what each includes. Disconnects carry no source IP.
• Covers the source IP (NAT, and self-hosted Management behind a reverse proxy) and the location (GeoLite2, recorded only when it was looked up for that connection's own IP).
• Shows where to find the history: the peer's Connection History tab and the permission it needs, Audit Events, and GET /api/events/audit with its meta keys. Notes that MCP agents read the same events through list_audit_events.
• States the limits: no history from before the upgrade, gaps when a Management server stops unexpectedly, out-of-order entries on quick reconnects, audit log volume, the 10,000-event retrieval cap, and NB_EVENT_ACTIVITY_LOG_ENABLED=false on self-hosted.

Activity, Audit Events Logging

• Adds "Peer connected" and "Peer disconnected" to the list of tracked events and links to the new page. The existing note about future client-side connection events now separates connections to Management from tunnels between peers.

Navigation

• Adds Connection History under Peers, after Remote Jobs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a Connection History link under Manage NetBird → Peers.
  • Documented peer connections and disconnections to Management, including where to view events, available connection details, access requirements, and limitations.
  • Clarified that these events do not represent peer-to-peer tunnel connectivity or traffic.

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Walkthrough

The documentation adds a peer connection history page, links to it from the Peers navigation, and updates the audit-events page to describe peer connection and disconnection events.

Changes: Peer Connection History

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document and link to connection history src/pages/manage/peers/connection-history.mdx, src/components/NavigationDocs.jsx, src/pages/manage/activity/index.mdx	The new page describes connection history, event metadata, access, and limitations. The navigation links to the page, and the audit-events documentation describes peer connection and disconnection events.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: braginini, sunsetdrifter

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6eaff

The new connection history documentation is useful, but one sentence in the audit events overview suggests that disconnect events include a source IP and location, which the new page says they do not. Correcting that wording keeps the docs consistent and carries little merge risk.

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The title "Document peer connection history" matches the main change: a new Connection History documentation page for peers, plus related updates to the Activity page and navigation. It is short and specific, and it states the primary change.

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Peer links appear in pages neat
Source places join the tale
A history tab points the way
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Review comments at @src/pages/manage/activity/index.mdx:
- Line 128: Update the activity description so only connect events are said to
include the public source IP when available and the location when known; do not
attribute this metadata to disconnect events. Preserve the existing explanation
of what peer connection events record and the connection-history link.

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