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Activity tracking events for IBM MQ as a Service

IBM Cloud® services, such as IBM® MQ 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, which is 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.

Note: 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

IBM MQ as a Service sends activity tracking events to IBM Cloud Activity Tracker hosted event search in the regions that are indicated in the following table.

Table 1. Locations where activity tracking events are sent to IBM Cloud Activity Tracker hosted event search
Americas Asia-Pacific Europe
Dallas (us-south) - Yes Tokyo (jp-tok) - No Frankfurt (eu-de) - Yes
Washington (us-east) - Yes Sydney (au-syd) - No London (eu-gb) - Yes
Toronto (ca-tor) - No Osaka (jp-osa) - No Madrid (eu-es) - No
Sao Paulo (br-sao) - No Chennai (in-che) - No  

IBM MQ as a Service sends activity tracking events by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing in the regions that are indicated in the following table.

Table 2. Locations where activity tracking events are sent by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing
Americas Asia-Pacific Europe
Dallas (us-south) - Yes Tokyo (jp-tok) - No Frankfurt (eu-de) - Yes
Washington (us-east) - Yes Sydney (au-syd) - No London (eu-gb) - Yes
Toronto (ca-tor) - No Osaka (jp-osa) - No Madrid (eu-es) - No
Sao Paulo (br-sao) - No Chennai (in-che) - No  

Viewing activity tracking events for IBM MQ as a Service

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.

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

The following table lists the activity tracking event actions that the IBM Cloud platform generates IBM MQ as a Service instances are processed.

Action Description
mqcloud.instance.create An event is generated when you provision a service instance.
mqcloud.instance.update An event is generated when you rename a service instance or when you change the service plan.
mqcloud.instance.delete An event is generated when a service instance is deleted.

List of management events

Action Description
mqcloud.queue-manager.create An event is created when you create a queue manager
mqcloud.queue-manager.delete An event is created when you delete a queue manager
mqcloud.queue-manager.update An event is created when you update a queue manager
mqcloud.key-store-cert.create An event is created when you import a certificate into a key store
mqcloud.key-store-cert.delete An event is created when you delete a certificate from a key store
mqcloud.key-store-cert.update An event is created when you update a certificate in a key store
mqcloud.trust-store-cert.create An event is created when you import a certificate into a trust store
mqcloud.trust-store-cert.delete An event is created when you delete a certificate from a trust store
mqcloud.trust-store-cert.update An event is created when you update a certificate in a trust store
mqcloud.admin-credentials.create An event is created when you create administrator credentials
mqcloud.admin-credentials.delete An event is created when you delete administrator credentials
mqcloud.admin-credentials.update An event is created when you update administrator credentials
mqcloud.admin-apikey.create An event is created when you create an API key for an administrator
mqcloud.admin-apikey.update An event is created when you update an API key for an administrator
mqcloud.app-credentials.create An event is created when you create application credentials
mqcloud.app-credentials.delete An event is created when you delete application credentials
mqcloud.app-credentials.update An event is created when you update application credentials
mqcloud.app-apikey.update An event is created when you update an API key for an application