---
name: apiconnect-vri-logging
title: Logging for API Connect Reserved
description: You can use IBM Cloud Logs to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing to an IBM Cloud Logs instance.
last-updated: 2026-07-14
---

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# Logging for API Connect Reserved
{: #logging}

You can use IBM Cloud Logs to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing to an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

## Enabling logging
{: #log-enable}

Logging is automatically enabled in your API Connect Reserved service instance.

## Locations where logs are sent by IBM Cloud Logs Routing
{: #lr-locations}



API Connect Reserved sends logs by IBM Cloud Logs Routing in all regions where the API Connect Reserved service is available.

### Launching IBM Cloud Logs from the Observability page
{: #log-launch-standalone}



For more information about launching the IBM Cloud Logs UI, see [Launching the UI in the IBM Cloud Logs documentation.](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-instance-launch&format=markdown)