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Logging and Monitoring

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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...
21 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future 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.
27 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

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...
27 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

I want to delete an object on the Cloud Logs's Archive query page

I understand that it is possible to view logs from the archive from the Logs page and Archive query page. However, our request is to delete objects that are not reused from the archive query page. Users are not necessarily familiar with how to u...
3 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Add more info to database platform logs

Currently platform logs for Databases only display the database CRN, however from a human readability and general log query and alerting standpoint, it would be good to have the database resource name available as well. Was advised by IBM Support ...
10 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorder in Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorded somewhere in IBM Cloud Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies. Reason - Indivisual users does individual tasks on various IBM cloud services but there is no single pane of gla...
about 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 4 Functionality already exists

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services. Useful to send emails from native monitoring services.
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 5 Functionality already exists

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well. I want to configure and monitor my infrastructure from one dashboard only from a single region using cloud native services.
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration