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name: cloud-databases-cdb-notifications
title: Set up notifications
description: Set up IBM Cloud email notifications to stay up-to-date with announcements, billing and usage, additional notification preferences, and ordering.
last-updated: 2023-10-05
---

> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Set up notifications
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Set up [IBM Cloud email notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-email-prefs&format=markdown){: external} to stay up-to-date with announcements, billing and usage, additional notification preferences, and ordering.

Set up [resource notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-email-prefs&format=markdown#setting-resource-notifications){: external}. Cloud Databases directly notifies you when your database version is approaching end of life. For more information, see the Cloud Databases [Database Version Lifecycle](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-versioning-policy&format=markdown){: external}.

## Next Steps
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Now that you've set up IBM Cloud notifications, you should [set up logging and monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-getting-started-cdb-logging-monitoring&format=markdown) for your Cloud Databases service instance.