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Managing instances through the Observability UI

Managing instances through the Observability UI

You can manage your Activity Tracker instances through the Observability dashboard in IBM Cloud.

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. For information about IBM Cloud Logs, see the IBM Cloud Logs documentation.

Launch the Activity Tracker UI in IBM Cloud

Complete the following steps to launch the Activity Tracker dashboard in IBM Cloud:

  1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

  2. Click the Menu icon Menu icon > Observability.

  3. Select Activity Tracker.

    The list of instances that are available on IBM Cloud is displayed.

Managing Activity Tracker instances

In the Activity Tracker UI, you can manage your audit instances.

  • You can view all instances across all locations. You can also specify 1 location and view the instances that are available in that location.
  • You can view all instances across all the resource groups in your account. You can also select 1 resource group and view the instances that are available in that resource group.
  • You can create instances. Learn more.
  • You can remove instances. Learn more.
  • You can change the service plan of an instance. Learn more.
  • You can manage access to the instance.

For each instance, you can view the following information:

  • The status of an instance
  • The resource group that is associated with an instance
  • The region where the instance is provisioned
  • The service plan of an instance