Viewing events through the Views section

View events

Complete the following steps to view events:

1. Check that your user ID has permissions to launch the web UI and view events.

   The following table lists the minimum roles that a user must have to be able to launch the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker web UI, and view, search, and filter events:

   Table 1. IAM roles

   Role	Permission granted
   Platform role: Viewer	Allows the user to view the list of service instances in the Observability dashboard.
   Service role: Reader	Allows the user to launch the web UI, and view, search, and filter events in the web UI.

   For more information on how to configure policies for a user, see Granting user permissions to a user or service ID.

2. Go to the web UI.

3. Click the Views icon .

4. Select Everything to see all the events, or a view.

You can view events through the view that you have selected.

View a subset of the events by applying a search query

You can select the events that are displayed through a view by applying a search query. You can save that view for reuse later. Learn more.

View a subset of the events by applying a timeframe

You can select the events that are displayed through a view by applying a timeframe.

You can apply a timestamp by specifying an absolute time, a relative time, or a time range.

Complete the following steps to jump to a specific time:

1. Go to the web UI.

2. Click the Views icon .

3. Select Everything or a view.

4. Enter a time query. Choose any of the following options:

   • Enter an abosute time to jump to a point in time in your events such as May 20 7:00pm.

   • Enter a relative time such as 2 days ago, today at 12am, or an hour ago.

   • Enter a time range such as yesterday 10am to yesterday 11am, last fri 4:30pm to 11/12 1 AM, last wed 4:30pm to 23/05 1 AM, or May 20 10am to May 22 10am. Make sure to include to to separate the initial timestamp from the end timestamp.

5. Press ENTER.

   You might get the error message: Your request is taking longer than expected, try refreshing your browser in a bit as we try to catch up. Retry. You might get this error when the timeframe that you have specified does not have any events available to show. Change the time query, and retry.

View an event in context

At any time, you can view each event line in context.

Complete the following steps:

1. In the web UI, click the Views icon .

2. Select Everything or a custom view.

3. Identify a line that you want to explore.

4. Expand the event line.

   Information about line identifiers, tags, and labels is displayed.

5. Click View in Context to see the event line in context of other entries from that host, app, or both.

When you finish exploring the event, click Close to close the line.

Copy an event to the clipboard

Complete the following steps to copy an event to the clipboard:

1. In the web UI, click the Views icon .

2. Select Everything or a custom view.

3. Identify a line that you want to explore.

4. Expand the event line.

   Information about line identifiers, tags, and labels is displayed.

5. Click Copy to clipboard to copy the event to the clipboard. You can select to copy the event as a formatted line, a raw line of key/value pairs, or in JSON format.

When you finish exploring the event, click Close to close the line.

Copy an event URL to the clipboard

Complete the following steps to copy an event to the clipboard that can then be used to directly access the event:

1. In the web UI, click the Views icon .

2. Select Everything or a custom view.

3. Identify a line that you want to explore.

4. Expand the event line.

   Information about line identifiers, tags, and labels is displayed.

5. Click Share this line. A link URL is generated that can be copied to the clipboard.

When you finish exploring the event, click Close to close the line.