Deprecation of IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker
IBM Cloud Logs replaces IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker providing the functions of those services, and more.
As of 28 March 2024 the IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker services are deprecated and will no longer be supported as of 30 March 2025. Customers will need to migrate to IBM Cloud Logs, which replaces these two services, prior to 30 March 2025.
IBM Cloud Activity Tracker is being deprecated, but activity tracking events will be supported in both the new IBM Cloud Logs service and with the existing IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing service.
IBM Cloud Logs is planned to be generally available in late second quarter 2024.
IBM Cloud has deprecated and will end support of IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker on 30 March 2025. These two services are being replaced with the new IBM Cloud Logs service.
IBM Cloud Logs replaces both IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker. The IBM Cloud Logs service has the capabilities that both services offer and provides enhanced functions in a single service. You have a choice to maintain separate IBM Cloud Logs instances for log data and activity event data. Or, you could combine the data into a single service instance for operational simplicity and expanded observability. Tools will be provided to help you migrate your IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker configurations to IBM Cloud Logs.
At the IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker end of support date, any existing instance of both services will be permanently disabled and de-provisioned. Service data is saved if archiving was enabled prior to the end of support date.
For information on archiving, see:
Why IBM Cloud Logs?
The volume of application data generated and processed is increasing exponentially. As businesses increasing rely on cloud services for data insights, the cost of downtime, slow performance, and customer satisfaction becomes an increasing challenge. The tools and techniques available for this increased workload observability must be balanced against the volume of data processed to have the right cost control balance. IBM Cloud Logs gives you increased insights into the ever increasing generated data and provides tools to manage data growth against your budget.
IBM Cloud Logs gives you flexibility in how your data is processed for insights and trends, and where data is stored for high-speed search and long term trend analysis. It provides the tools for you to maximize the value obtained while maintaining control on the total cost at all times:
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Data required primarily for long term retention could be sent directly to IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets. You will have the ability to search the data in the bucket, regardless of the age of the data.
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Data required for analysis and alerting can be processed for alerts, real-time visualization, metrics, and analytics.
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Key data for operational insights could be directed to high-speed search for the fastest query results and the handling complex queries during analysis.
Control of your data consumption and cost is managed through the service’s TCO Optimizer. Using the TCO Optimizer you can configure rules to control how your data is processed in the service. Optimizer rules are configured to control how data is processed allowing you to balance expanding data consumption within your existing budgets.
IBM Cloud Logs goes beyond existing logging capabilities to put expanded capabilities into your hands without sacrificing core logging performance.
As IBM Cloud transitions from IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker to IBM Cloud Logs, IBM endeavors to protect your investment in IBM Cloud observability.
Additional benefits of IBM Cloud Logs
IBM Cloud Logs adds expanded observability functions:
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Increase data insights with client-defined parsing rules to enrich and restructure data in real-time.
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Build not a single alert, but a flow of multiple alerts, enabling you to more quickly define the root cause of the issue.
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IBM Cloud Logs alerts can integrate with the IBM Cloud Event Notifications service where clients might centralize alert routing with other IBM Cloud alerts.
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Do alert incident management within IBM Cloud Logs.
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Alert incidents are managed within the IBM Cloud Logs console. This allows you to easily manage application environments and workloads and reduce the number of tools necessary to meet SLA objectives.
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Define metrics from incoming log and event data to quickly visualize data for trend analysis.
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Apply machine learning analytics templates to incoming data for log aggregation and anomaly detection.
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Search that spans all your log data, on-demand.
A migration tool is provided to move many key configuration attributes from IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker to IBM Cloud Logs.
If you plan to migrate using the migration tool, you must do so before IBM® Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker are de-provisioned and deleted on 30 March 2025.
Full information about the new service will be available in the IBM Cloud Logs documentation.
Deprecation Timeline
| Date | Event |
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| 28 March 2024 | Announcement of the deprecation of IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker |
| 24 June 2024 | General availability of IBM Cloud Logs.
Deployment to IBM Cloud regions will occur over time. Migration to IBM Cloud Logs can begin in an MZR when IBM Cloud Logs is available in the region. |
| Ongoing | End of marketing for new users.
Once IBM Cloud Logs is available in a region, users who do not have an existing IBM Log Analysis or IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instance in that region will be unable to provision a new IBM Log Analysis or IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instance 30 days after IBM Cloud Logs is available in that region. Users that have existing IBM Log Analysis or IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instances can continue to deploy instances in all regions as required. |
| 30 November 2024 | End of marketing for existing IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker user.
Users with existing IBM Log Analysis or IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instances will not be able to provision new instances. |
| 30 March 2025 | End of support and end of life of IBM Log Analysis and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker.
Any IBM Log Analysis or IBM Cloud Activity Tracker instances still existing will be stopped and deleted. Archived data is retained in the IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket under the customer's control. |