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Changing the service plan of an instance

Changing the service plan of an instance

When you provision an instance of the IBM Log Analysis service, you must choose a service plan. Different plans offer different features. You can change the service plan at any time.

End of Support: As of 30 March 2025 the IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker services are no longer supported. IBM Cloud Logs replaces these two services. For information about IBM Cloud Logs, see the IBM Cloud Logs documentation.

IBM Log Analysis ended marketing on 30 November 2024. You can no longer change service plans for existing IBM Log Analysis instances.

Learn more about service plans.

Changing the service plan through the Observability dashboard

To change the service plan of an instance from the Observability dashboard in the IBM Cloud, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

    After you log in with your user ID and password, the IBM Cloud UI opens.

  2. Go to the menu icon menu icon and select Observability to access the Observability dashboard.

  3. Click Logging.

  4. Click the Actions icon Actions icon next to the instance you want to change.

  5. Click Edit plan.

  6. Select a service plan.

  7. Click Save.

Changing the service plan through the CLI

Complete the following steps to change the service plan:

  1. [Pre-requisite] Installation of the IBM Cloud CLI. Learn more.

  2. Log in to the location in the IBM Cloud where the instance is provisioned. Run the following command: ibmcloud login

    To get the latest list of locations that are available for the IBM Log Analysis service, see Locations.

  3. Set the resource group where the instance is available. Run the following command: ibmcloud target

    By default, the default resource group is set.

  4. [Optional] Get the current service plan ID.

    To get the current service plan of an instance, you can run the following command and check the value of the resource_plan_id field:

    ibmcloud resource service-instance INSTANCE_NAME --output JSON

  5. Change the service plan. Run the ibmcloud resource service-instance-update command:

    ibmcloud resource service-instance-update NAME --service-plan-id RESOURCE_PLAN_ID

    Where

    • NAME is the name of the instance

    • service-plan-id indicates the type of plan.

    • RESOURCE_PLAN_ID is the ID of the plan that you want to set. To get the service plan IDs, see Service plans.

For example, to change the service plan of an instance to the 30 days retention plan, run the following command:

ibmcloud resource service-instance-update logging-instance-01 deda35aa-662b-4b06-9f6e-05e0b55cc577