Removing an instance

You can remove an instance of the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker service from the IBM Cloud UI or through the command line.

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.

Considerations if you are using archiving

If you are using archiving, make sure all archiving has completed and that you have stopped archiving before you remove your instance. Removing an instance while archiving is still active can result in archive records being lost.

Removing an instance through the IBM Cloud UI

To remove an instance of IBM Cloud Activity Tracker by using the IBM Cloud UI, complete the following steps:

Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

After you log in with your user ID and password, the IBM Cloud UI opens.
Go to the menu icon > Observability to access the Observability Dashboard.
Select Activity Tracker. The list of instances is displayed.
Click the Actions icon for the instance you want to delete and select Delete.

Next, remove permissions that are granted to users to work with the instance that you deleted.

Removing an instance through the CLI

To remove an instance of IBM Cloud Activity Tracker through the command line, complete the following steps:

[Pre-requisite] Install the IBM Cloud CLI.

For more information, see Installing the IBM Cloud CLI.
Log in to IBM Cloud. Run the following command: ibmcloud login

Get information about the instance that you plan to delete.

ibmcloud resource service-instance INSTANCE-NAME --output JSON

Remove any service key associated with the instance.

Find the service keys that are associated with an instance:
```
ibmcloud resource service-keys --instance-id INSTANCE-GUID
```
Run the following command to delete 1 service key. You must delete all.
```
ibmcloud resource service-key-delete SERVICE-KEY-NAME
```
Remove the instance. Run the ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete command:
```
ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete NAME
```
Where NAME is the name of the instance.

For example, to remove an instance, run the following command:
```
ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete logging-instance-01
```

For example, to remove an instance, run the following command:

ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete logdna-instance-01

Next, remove permissions that are granted to users to work with the instance that you deleted.