at-events.md

copyright	years 2023, 2025
lastupdated	2025-04-29
keywords	projects, audit, events
subcollection	secure-enterprise

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Activity tracking events for a project

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As a security officer, auditor, or manager, you can use the {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full}} service to track how users and applications interact with the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Projects service. {: 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.

Locations where activity tracking events are generated

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{{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Projects sends {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}} events in the following regions: Sydney, Frankfurt, and Washington.

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

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{{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Projects sends activity tracking events to {{site.data.keyword.atracker_full_notm}} hosted event search in the followng regions: Sydney, Frankfurt, and Washington.

Viewing activity tracking events for {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Projects

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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.

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

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

List of management events

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{{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Projects supports the management events that are indicated in the following table.

Action	Description
project.project.create	Create a project.
project.project.read	Read a project.
project.project.list	List all projects under the account.
project.project.update	Update a project.
project.project.delete	Delete a project.
project.config.create	Create a project config.
project.config.read	Read a project config.
project.config.update	Update a project config.
project.config.validate	Validate a project config.
project.config.list	List all project configs under the account.
project.config.update	Update a project config.
project.config.approve	Approve a project config draft.
project.config.force-approve	Force approve a project config draft.
project.config.delete	Delete a project config.
project.config.deploy	Deploy a project config.
project.config.undeploy	Undeploy (destroy) a project config.
project.config.manual-tag	Add a tag to a config.
project.config.export-stack-definition	[Experimental]{: tag-purple} Add a deployable architecture stack to a private catalog.
project.environment.create	Create a project environment.
project.environment.read	Read a project environment.
project.environment.list	List all project environments under the account.
project.environment.update	Update a project environment.
project.environment.delete	Delete a project environment.
{: caption="Actions that generate management events" caption-side="bottom"}

For a complete list of custom request and response parameters for each event, see the Project API. The update actions don't provide information about the delta, only the new value is provided. {: note}