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My ideas: Logging and Monitoring

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Need to configure "Subsystem" names of managed databases to more human readable names instead of CRN

Our customer requirement is that Subsystem names of manage database services shows the database's CRN instead of the databases's name.as customer have many of these instances it is very difficult to filter the database as we have to consistently g...
4 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Log routing feature request to support multiple target simialr to Activity tracking routing

IBM cloud Log Routing can be routed to only single target which is IBM Cloud Log instance. User of member account aren't allowed to create additional target for their business use-case. Support Case Link : https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/case...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Cloud Monitoring private endpoints

In each Cloud Monitoring dashboard, we have seen a switch to enable public access to the dashboard. Convenient as it is, we find it to be a "unsecure" as anyone with the link could access our data. Is it possible to make use of "private endpoints"...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Enable Cloud Logs agent on SUSE & Power VS servers

We currently do not have a native SUSE or PowrVS agent. Best practice for those environments is to have a supported log agent in the environment and route the logs through it. The customer's requesting to have IBM Cloud Logs enabled on SUSE & ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Fluentd plugin for forwarding logs to Cloud logs

We have been used fluentd logdna plugin in order to output logs to Log Analysis from fluentd.Migrating to Cloud Logs, we would like you to release a fluentd plugin for Cloud Logs which has same function as logdna plugin. https://www.fluentd.org/pl...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Need to have PostgreSQL multi-line audit logs formatted to mono-line in IBM Cloud logs / LogAnalysis

As title, Multi-line logs for postgreSQL are useless with Logstash for Guardium Data Protection using Universal connector.
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Planned for future release

Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Logs Agent to support sending logs to Instana Logs

Today, IBM Cloud Logs Agent[1] supports sending logs only to IBM Cloud Logs instance. ICL Agent could support sending logs to Instana Logs[2], too. This idea is to add support for Instana Logs in ICL Agent so clients can have only one agent to sen...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration