For more information, see your Cloud Databases instance.
IBM Cloud Monitoring - when disk usage is greater than 80% of provisioned capacity (we encourage you to use auto scaling for disk capacity). We also encourage you to use, understand, and alert on all provided
metrics like disk I/O or CPU usage.
IBM Cloud Activity Tracker audit events for control plane actions, such as failed backups, IP allowlist updates, and auto scaling.
IBM Cloud Log Analysis - any particular database-specific logs you want to be notified about, such as slow query logs.
If available, turn on granular in-database auditing (only available for Databases for PostgreSQL and Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition).
Understand your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements and ensure that you can meet them with your database's configuration.
To resolve a database's UUID, use the command ibmcloud resource search <UUID>. Other useful CLI commands are: ibmcloud cdb about and ibmcloud cdb cxn. For more information, see the CLI plug-in reference documentation.