Include your activity tracking events file in an Observability topic group in the How to navigation group in your toc.yaml file.
Activity tracking events for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud services, such as Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, 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.
As of 28 March 2024, the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker service is deprecated and will no longer be supported as of 30 March 2025. Customers will need to migrate to IBM Cloud Logs before 30 March 2025. During the migration period, customers can use IBM Cloud Activity Tracker along with IBM Cloud Logs. Activity tracking events are the same for both services. For information about migrating from IBM Cloud Activity Tracker to IBM Cloud Logs and running the services in parallel, see migration planning.
Locations where activity tracking events are generated
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud activity tracking events are generated in all supported regions.
Locations where activity tracking events are sent to IBM Cloud Activity Tracker hosted event search
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud sends activity tracking events to IBM Cloud Activity Tracker hosted event search in all supported regions.
Locations where activity tracking events are sent by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud sends activity tracking events by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing in all supported regions.
Enabling activity tracking events for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
Activity Tracker can be enabled for your cluster during cluster create time.
- If you do not already have an instance in your account, create one.
- In the cluster create UI, configure you cluster as required.
- In the Observability integrations section, enable the Activity Tracker option. If an Activity Tracker service instance already exists in your account for the region you selected for you cluster, it is automatically connected to your cluster. If there is not an existing instance for the region, one is automatically created for you. Note that only one instance per region can exist in your account.
- Continue configuring the cluster.
Viewing activity tracking events for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
To view events, navigate to the Observability page in the console, then click Activity Tracker. Click the instance you want to view events for, then click Open dashboard. A separate window appears where you can view your events.
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.
List of platform events
For a list of all events generated by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, see the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker events reference doc.