IBM Cloud Logs
IBM Cloud Logs is a paid, cloud-deployed service for processing, storing, and querying logs to help identify issues and improve infrastructure and applicatio…
What IBM Cloud Logs is
IBM Cloud Logs is a paid, cloud-deployed service for processing, storing, and querying logs to help identify issues and improve infrastructure and application performance. It supports log pipelines, structured parsing, live tailing, archive export, and storage or search in IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets. The TCO Optimizer routes log and event data through consumption tiers using policies. Alert suppression can dismiss similar alerts after one is dismissed, while the Incidents screen connects triggered alerts with related logs. Flow Alerts combine logs, metrics, traces, and security data. Extensions provide predefined alerts, parsing rules, dashboards, and other resources through the UI or API. Integrations include Activity Tracker Event Routing, Cloud Logs Routing, Object Storage, Event Streams, Event Notifications, and IAM. Standard pricing is metered per gigabyte ingested: $0.48 USD/GB for Store and search, $0.75 USD/GB for Analyze and alert, and $1.20–$3.25 USD/GB for Priority insights with 7–90-day retention.
Good
- Supports live log tailing and archive export
- Structured log parsing included
- Combines logs, metrics, traces, and security data
- Offers retention choices from 7 to 90 days
- 24 × 7 global support documented
Watch out
- No free plan
- Per-instance limits apply
- Query range limited to 8 days
- Pricing is metered per gigabyte
Who it suits
It suits DevOps and SRE teams needing cloud log processing, search, monitoring, alerting, and archival. It is relevant to organizations choosing retention tiers and integrations around IBM Cloud services.
Verdict
IBM Cloud Logs covers collection, search, analysis, alerting, and archive workflows with multiple Standard options. Its metered pricing and documented alert, parsing, ingestion, and query limits should shape deployment planning.
Plans and prices
From IBM Cloud Logs's own pricing page, checked 24 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Standard - Store and search | — | Archive-oriented storage and search pipeline |
| Standard - Store and search | Priced on request | Archive-oriented storage and search pipeline |
| Standard - Analyze and alert | — | Processing, monitoring and alerting pipeline |
| Standard - Analyze and alert | Priced on request | Processing, monitoring and alerting pipeline |
| Standard - Priority insights (7 days) | — | 7 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (7 days) | Priced on request | 7 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (14 days) | — | 14 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (14 days) | Priced on request | 14 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (30 days) | — | 30 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (30 days) | Priced on request | 30 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (60 days) | Priced on request | 60 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (60 days) | — | 60 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (90 days) | — | 90 days retention |
| Standard - Priority insights (90 days) | Priced on request | 90 days retention |
| Standard | — | Store and search: $0.48 USD/GB · Analyze and alert: $0.75 USD/GB · Priority insights: $1.20 USD/GB (7 days), $1.75 USD/GB (14 days), $2.25 USD/GB (30 days), $2.75 USD/GB (60 days), $3.25 USD/GB (90 days) · Metered per gigabyte ingested; tier prices are listed per GB |
The facts
Each one read from IBM Cloud Logs's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alerting
- Alert suppression rules can automatically dismiss similar alerts after a user dismisses an alert.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Data residency
- Logs, configuration, and service data are processed and stored per region and are not visible in other regions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- cloudchecked 24 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- Extensions provide predefined alerts, parsing rules, dashboards, and other resources, and can be managed through the UI or API.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Flow alerts
- Flow Alerts combine logs, metrics, traces, and security data for monitoring and analysis.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Incidents
- The Incidents screen lets DevOps and SRE users identify triggered alerts and drill down into the related logs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented integrations include Activity Tracker Event Routing, Cloud Logs Routing, Object Storage, Event Streams, Event Notifications, and IAM.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Log retention
- 7checked 24 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- IBM Cloud Logs processes, stores, and queries logs to help detect issues and improve infrastructure and application performance.checked 11 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Service limits
- Per-instance limits include 500 alerts, 70 parsing rules, a 32 K ingestion log size, and an 8-day query time range.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Storage and search
- IBM Cloud Logs can store and search logs in IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets for long-term retention.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Support
- IBM documents 24 × 7 global support with IBM subject matter experts on call to help in a disaster.checked 11 Oct 2026
- TCO controls
- The TCO Optimizer lets users set policies to route log and event data through different consumption tiers.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
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