Planning for the migration of Log Analysis instances collecting logs in the account

Plan for your migration of IBM® Log Analysis instances to IBM Cloud Logs instances.

Migrating IBM Log Analysis instances to IBM Cloud Logs in IBM Cloud requires:

Migration of the IBM Log Analysis instance
Configuration of the logging agent to send data to the Cloud Logs instance

Always run the migration tool in a development or staging environment to test and validate the migration command and steps.

The IBM Cloud Logs migration tool migrates IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instance configurations. Only configuration information is migrated. Data is not migrated.

The following list outlines the services that you need access to to migrate an IBM Log Analysis instance:

Cloud Object Storage (to store data and metrics)
Event Notifications (to trigger alerts through Email, PagerDuty, Slack, webhook)
IBM Cloud Logs (the new logging service in IBM Cloud Observability)
Event Streams for managing streaming of data through a topic

Migration steps

Identify the regions where you have provisioned Log Analysis instances to collect logs.
Migrate 1 Log Analysis instance in the account by using the migration tool.