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Separate Alert resolution entry in the IBM Cloud Logs Alert summary dashboard

In the current state the IBM Cloud Logs "Alert summary" dashboard only shows that alert has been triggered regardless if it the alert is really triggered or if the alert has been resolved by an user. This can cause confusion amongst the users who ...
14 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Limitation of log message characters in email alerts

Only 1000 characters from log message displayed in email alerts due to the data size limitation "data.log_example" data size to be increased to 5000 to display meaningful log messages in the email alerts.
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 1 Future consideration

Log parsing enhancement for huge log messages

The logs are printing with lot of other details (expected is to view only logs). having some parsing issue with some of the logs, not with all the logs. 
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

To combine 2 different lines for a single email alert

Logs split into 2 lines and unable to trigger in a single alert - it was working as expected in LogDNA and we had single line of log We need to have both lines on the email alert triggered when the actual condition met
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Support for Opening Logs and Incidents in New Tabs

In Dashboard/Home, there the feature for seeing the latest occurred logs, new errors or page for incidents are great feature, Currently, when accessing one item in list in that table for the latest logs or incidents or newly occurred errors, the ...
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Special characters getting added on log messages

Due to special characters on log messages, character length getting exceeded and log is truncated on email alertsNeed to remove unnecessary special characters from email alert content
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Limitation of log export with CSV file

Only 20 pages of logs can be exported in CSV/ json file Need to increase the limit to export upto 100k logs in a single file
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Under review

Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration