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Tracking events using IBM Cloud Activity Tracker

Tracking events using IBM Cloud Activity Tracker

IBM Cloud Activity Tracker allows you to audit the requests made against a bucket and the objects it contains.

This feature is not currently supported in Object Storage for Satellite. Learn more.

Using the console

First, make sure that you have a bucket. If not, follow the getting started tutorial to become familiar with the console.

Enable activity tracking

  1. From the IBM Cloud console dashboard, select Storage to view your resource list.
  2. Next, select the service instance with your bucket from within the Storage menu. This takes you to the Object Storage Console.
  3. Choose the bucket for which you want to enable logging.
  4. Select Configuration from the navigation menu.
  5. Navigate to the Activity Tracker tab.
  6. Click Create.
  7. If you already have an instance of IBM Cloud Activity Tracker, you can select it here. If not, select the appropriate configuration, and click Create.
  8. After a few minutes, any activity will be visible in the web UI.

Archive events to object storage.

It is possible to have all data collected in an instance of IBM Cloud Activity Tracker be archived and written to a bucket. For more information, see the Activity Tracker documentation.

Using an API

Enabling activity tracking is managed with the COS Resource Configuration API. This new REST API is used for configuring buckets.