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2024-11-07

activity tracking, IAM events, Identity and Access Management, observibility

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Activity tracking events for IAM

{: #at_events_iam}

{{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Identity and Access Management (IAM) generates activity tracking events. {: shortdesc}

Activity tracking events report on activities that change the state of a service in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}. You can use the events to investigate abnormal activity and critical actions and to comply with regulatory audit requirements.

You can use {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}}, 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 {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}}.

You can use {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}} to an {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} instance.

As of 28 March 2024, the {{site.data.keyword.at_full_notm}} service is deprecated and will no longer be supported as of 30 March 2025. Customers will need to migrate to {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} before 30 March 2025. During the migration period, customers can use {{site.data.keyword.at_full_notm}} along with {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}}. Activity tracking events are the same for both services. For information about migrating from {{site.data.keyword.at_full_notm}} to {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} and running the services in parallel, see migration planning. {: important}

Locations where activity tracking events are sent to {{site.data.keyword.at_full_notm}} hosted event search

{: #at-legacy-locations-iam}

[Deprecated]{: tag-red}

IAM sends activity tracking events to {{site.data.keyword.at_full_notm}} hosted event search in the regions that are indicated in the following table.

Dallas (`us-south`)	Washington (`us-east`)	Toronto (`ca-tor`)	Sao Paulo (`br-sao`)
[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Americas locations" caption-side="top"}
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{: tab-title="Americas"}
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{: class="simple-tab-table"}
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Tokyo (`jp-tok`)	Sydney (`au-syd`)	Osaka (`jp-osa`)	Chennai (`in-che`)
[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Asia Pacific locations" caption-side="top"}
{: #at-table-2}
{: tab-title="Asia Pacific"}
{: tab-group="at"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: row-headers}

Frankfurt (`eu-de`)	London (`eu-gb`)	Madrid (`eu-es`)
[Yes]{: tag-green}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Europe locations" caption-side="top"}
{: #at-table-3}
{: tab-title="Europe"}
{: tab-group="at"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: row-headers}

Events are available in the Frankfurt (eu-de) region.

To view these events, you must provision an instance of the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker service [Deprecated]{: tag-red} in the Frankfurt (eu-de) region. Then, you must open the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker UI.

Locations where activity tracking events are sent by {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}}

{: #atracker-locations-iam}

IAM sends activity tracking events by {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}} in the regions that are indicated in the following table.

Dallas (`us-south`)	Washington (`us-east`)	Toronto (`ca-tor`)	Sao Paulo (`br-sao`)
[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Americas locations" caption-side="top"}
{: #atracker-table-1}
{: tab-title="Americas"}
{: tab-group="atracker"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: row-headers}

Tokyo (`jp-tok`)	Sydney (`au-syd`)	Osaka (`jp-osa`)	Chennai (`in-che`)
[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Asia Pacific locations" caption-side="top"}
{: #atracker-table-2}
{: tab-title="Asia Pacific"}
{: tab-group="atracker"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: row-headers}

Frankfurt (`eu-de`)	London (`eu-gb`)	Madrid (`eu-es`)
[Yes]{: tag-green}	[No]{: tag-red}	[No]{: tag-red}
{: caption="Regions where activity tracking events are sent in Europe locations" caption-side="top"}
{: #atracker-table-3}
{: tab-title="Europe"}
{: tab-group="atracker"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: row-headers}

Launching {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} from the Observability page

{: #log-launch-standalone-iam}

For information on launching the {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} UI, see Launching the UI in the {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}}.

Viewing activity tracking events for IAM

{: #at-viewing-iam}

You can use {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}} to an {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} instance.

The IAM service generates global activity tracking events for the actions that are listed in this document. Select Platform events (global) as the location to send audit events from when you configure an Activity Tracker route. {: tip}

To view IAM events in the {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} dashboard, go to the Subsystems filter and select the values with the prefix iam-. For example, iam-am, iam-identity, or iam-groups.