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IBM Cloud Logs extensions

IBM Cloud Logs extensions

IBM Cloud Logs offers a number of default data extensions. Each extension contains a set of predefined items – alerts, parsing rules, dashboards, saved views, actions, and more.

Extension packages provide you with a series of predefined features. Setting up these features manually would require additional time and resources.

Extensions can include:

  • Predefined alerts, parsing rules, and Events to Metrics definitions.
  • Predefined dashboards.
  • IBM Cloud Logs custom dashboards.
  • Predefined Explore views.
  • Predefined enrichments.
  • Predefined default actions.

IBM Cloud extensions

The following list outlines extensions that you can deploy to monitor logs:

  • System Monitoring: Use it to get insights into your system's performance and usage of an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

Determining available extensions

You can determine the available extensions through the IBM Cloud Logs UI.

  1. Launch the IBM Cloud Logs UI.

  2. Click the Integrations icon Integrations icon > Extensions.

The list of available extensions is displayed. You can also deploy an extension from the list.