Auditing events for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a Service

IBM Cloud® services, such as IBM® Db2® Warehouse as a Service, generate activity tracking events.

Activity tracking events report on activities that change the state of a service in IBM Cloud. You can use the events to investigate abnormal activity and critical actions and to comply with regulatory audit requirements.

You can use IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing, a platform service, to route auditing events in your account to destinations of your choice by configuring targets and routes that define where activity tracking events are sent. For more information, see About IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing.

You can use IBM Cloud Logs to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing to an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

Viewing activity tracking events for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a Service

You can use IBM Cloud Logs to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing to an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

Launching IBM Cloud Logs from the Observability page

For information on launching the IBM Cloud Logs UI, see Launching the UI in the IBM Cloud Logs documentation.

Platform events

The following table lists the actions that generate an event:

Actions that generate platform events
Action	Description
`dashdb.instance.create`	An event is generated when you provision a service instance.
`dashdb.instance.update`	An event is generated when you rename a service instance or when you change the service plan.
`dashdb.instance.delete`	An event is generated when a service instance is deleted.
`dashdb.instance.schedule_reclaim`	An event is generated when a service instance is pending_reclamation.
`dashdb.instance.restore`	An event is generated when a service instance is restored.

The following table lists the actions that generate an event for managing service credentials that are associated to a service instance:

Actions that generate service credentials events
Action	Description
`service_name.key.create`	An event is generated when an API key is created for a service instance through the Service credentials section of the service instance UI.
`service_name.key.delete`	An event is generated when an API key that is associated with a service instance is deleted from the Service credentials section of the service instance UI.