IBM Cloud Logs

What the maker publishes

Alerting

Alert suppression rules can automatically dismiss similar alerts after a user dismisses an alert. source

Archive export

Yes source

Data residency

Logs, configuration, and service data are processed and stored per region and are not visible in other regions. source

Deployment options

cloud source

Extensions

Extensions provide predefined alerts, parsing rules, dashboards, and other resources, and can be managed through the UI or API. source

Flow alerts

Flow Alerts combine logs, metrics, traces, and security data for monitoring and analysis. source

Free plan

No source

Incidents

The Incidents screen lets DevOps and SRE users identify triggered alerts and drill down into the related logs. source

Integrations

Documented integrations include Activity Tracker Event Routing, Cloud Logs Routing, Object Storage, Event Streams, Event Notifications, and IAM. source

Live log tailing

Yes source

Log pipelines

Yes source

Purpose

IBM Cloud Logs processes, stores, and queries logs to help detect issues and improve infrastructure and application performance. source

Log retention

7 source

Security

IBM states that data in transit and at rest in the control and data planes is encrypted using IBM-managed keys, and that IAM policies are enforced on operations. source

Service limits

Per-instance limits include 500 alerts, 70 parsing rules, a 32 K ingestion log size, and an 8-day query time range. source

Storage and search

IBM Cloud Logs can store and search logs in IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets for long-term retention. source

Structured log parsing

Yes source

Support

IBM documents 24 × 7 global support with IBM subject matter experts on call to help in a disaster. source

TCO controls

The TCO Optimizer lets users set policies to route log and event data through different consumption tiers. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 11 Oct 2026.