# Logs and Queries

As a design principal, Ambient generally runs with minimal to no log events for normal operations.  This is to economize on the gas costs of common operations.&#x20;

Instead, because of its single contract design and simplified storage layout, tracing is easily done by tracing for state differences at the `CrocSwapDex` contract address. Ambient provides an off-chain API for history and position monitoring. &#x20;