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Customizing the web UI

Customizing the web UI

You can configure your web UI to work with UTC timestamps, change the log line format, change the background color and more.

As of 28 March 2024 the IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker services are deprecated and will no longer be supported as of 30 March 2025. Customers will need to migrate to IBM Cloud Logs, which replaces these two services, prior to 30 March 2025.

Configure UTC timestamps

By default, the web UI is configured to use local timestamps in views and searches.

To display timestamps in UTC and do timeframe searches relative to UTC instead of local time, complete the following steps:

  1. In the web UI, click the User preferences icon > User preferences.
  2. Select Viewer options.
  3. Click Show time as UTC to enable UTC timestamps.

Configure the background color

Complete the following steps:

  1. In the web UI, click the User preferences icon > User preferences.

  2. Select Viewer style.

  3. Choose the default contrast.

    Choose Light mode to have a light background.

    Choose Dark mode* to have a black background.

  4. Select the desired theme, text size, and line height.

  5. Click Done to save your changes.

Configure the log line format

Complete the following steps to display a log line that includes the timestamp and message of an event:

  1. In the web UI, click the User preferences icon > User preferences.

  2. Select Log format.

    By default, the log format is configured in the following way:

    %time('MMM D HH:mm:ss') %source %app %level %line

  3. To remove items from the format, drag and drop the items. For example, to remove source, app, and level drag them out.

    The log line changes to the following format:

    %time('MMM D HH:mm:ss') %line