Im not sure I follow or understand your question but on some interfaces you can see something called Carrier Transitions using the 'show interface' command:
sh int Serial3/0/3:1
Serial3/0/3:1 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is PA-MC-2T3+
Description: Customer T1
Internet address is x.x.x.x/30
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 256 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
rely 255/255, load 1/255
Encapsulation PPP, crc 16, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
LCP Open
Open: IPCP, CDPCP
Last input 00:00:03, output 00:01:08, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max/drops); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: weighted fair
Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max total/threshold/drops)
Conversations 0/1/256 (active/max active/max total)
Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated)
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
20950 packets input, 1992090 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
1 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 1 abort
31524 packets output, 10804297 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
0 carrier transitions no alarm present
The Carrier Transitions increment everytime the line transitions from one state (e.g. UP) to another state (e.g DOWN)