Activity tracking events for VCF as a Service
IBM Cloud® services, such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 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.
VCF as a Service events are global events. For more information, see Event types.
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.
Locations where activity tracking events are generated
VCF as a Service generates activity tracking events in the regions that are indicated in the following table.
Dallas (us-south) |
Washington (us-east) |
Toronto (ca-tor) |
Sao Paulo (br-sao) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Tokyo (jp-tok) |
Sydney (au-syd) |
Osaka (jp-osa) |
Chennai (in-che) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | No | No |
Frankfurt (eu-de) |
London (eu-gb) |
Madrid (eu-es) |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | Yes |
Events that are related to virtual data centers
Events are generated to track how users and applications interact with virtual data centers (VDCs). The following table lists the actions that generate and send events to Activity Tracker.
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
vmware.vdc.create |
An event is generated when a VDC instance is created. |
vmware.vdc.delete |
An event is generated when a VDC instance is deleted. |
vmware.vdc.update |
An event is generated when a VDC instance is modified. |
vmware.sharedsite.create |
An event is generated when the VMware Cloud Director™ site creates a VDC on the multitenant site for the first time. |
vmware.sharedsite.delete |
An event is generated when the VMware Cloud Director site deletes a VDC on the multitenant site. |
Events that are related to director site management
Events are generated when you access VMware Cloud Director in VCF as a Service. The following table provides the actions that generate and send events to Activity Tracker.
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
vmware.directorsite.create |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site is created. |
vmware.directorsite.delete |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site is deleted. |
vmware.directorsite-pvdc.create |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site resource pool is created. |
vmware.directorsite-pvdc.delete |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site resource pool is deleted. |
vmware.directorsite-cluster.create |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site cluster is created. |
vmware.directorsite-cluster.delete |
An event is generated when a VMware Cloud Director site cluster is deleted. |
vmware.directorsite-host.add |
An event is generated when a host is added to a VMware Cloud Director site. |
vmware.directorsite-host.remove |
An event is generated when a host is removed from a VMware Cloud Director site. |
vmware.directorsite-nfs-storage.add |
An event is generated when NFS storage is added to a VMware Cloud Director site. |
vmware.directorsite-nfs-storage.remove |
An event is generated when NFS storage is removed from a VMware Cloud Director site. |
vmware.directorsite.password-reset |
An event is generated when the user password for a VMware Cloud Director site is reset. |
vmware.directorsite-iam.config |
An event is generated when the OpenID Connect (OIDC) for a VMware Cloud Director site is configured. |
vmware.directorsite-iam.read |
An event is generated when the OIDC for a VMware Cloud Director site is checked. Monitoring is not enabled yet. |