Understanding data portability for IBM Cloud Logs Routing

Data portability involves a set of tools and procedures that enable customers to export the digital artifacts that are needed to implement similar workload and data processing on different service providers or on-premises software. It includes procedures for copying and storing the service customer content, including the related configuration that is used by the service to store and process the data, on the customer's own location.

Responsibilities

IBM Cloud services provide interfaces and instructions to guide the customer to copy and store the service customer content, including the related configuration, on their own selected location.

The customer is responsible for the use of the exported data and configuration for data portability to other infrastructures, which includes:

  • The planning and execution for setting up alternative infrastructure on different cloud providers or on-premises software that provide similar capabilities to the IBM services.
  • The planning and execution for the porting of the required application code on the alternative infrastructure, including the adaptation of customer's application code, deployment automation, and so on.
  • The conversion of the exported data and configuration to the format that's required by the alternative infrastructure and adapted applications.

For more information about your responsibilities for IBM Cloud Logs Routing, see Understanding your responsibilities when using IBM Cloud Logs Routing.

Exporting data

The IBM Cloud Logs Routing service is an IBM Cloud service that routes logging data to IBM Cloud Logs instances. As such it does not retain any customer data that can be exported.

Export of data routed through IBM Cloud Logs Routing is possible through the IBM Cloud Logs instances receiving the logging data.