About preferences in an IBM Cloud Logs instance

You can change any of the following preferences in an IBM Cloud Logs instance:

• User-level default homepage

  User-level default homepage controls which section of the UI opens when a user logs in an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

  By default, when a user logs into an IBM Cloud Logs instance, the landing page is set to the Home Dashboard.

  Valid options for the User-level default homepage setting are: Home Dashboard, Custom Dashboards, Logs Explorer, Incidents, and Livetail.

  Through this setting, you can change the default landing page when a user logs in to any valid option.

  If a user logs into an intance and changes the default view or default custom dashboard, then, the default homepage that is launched when the user logs in is set to the preferences that the user configures for Custom Dashboards or Logs Explorer.

• Change time zone settings

  You can select if you want times to be displayed in your local time or in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). GMT is also known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

  Changing your time zone only affects time displayed and generated by the IBM Cloud Logs UI. It does not affect timestamps within log records (including log record timestamps displayed in the UI) or timestamps within alerts and incidents.

  This setting applies to all time zones across your IBM Cloud Logs instance.

  Valid options are: Local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

• Change Your date format view settings

  This setting applies to all date formats across your IBM Cloud Logs instance.

  Valid options are: DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY.

• Aggregate alerts into a gauge-type metric: cx_alerts

  By default, this setting is enabled.

  When the setting is enabled, IBM Cloud Logs generates a metric for every alert that triggers or is resolved.

  You can add this metric to a custom dashboard to monitor alerts in your instance. For more information, see custom dashboards and Creating a IBM Cloud Logs gauge widget.

How can I change the default view in the Explorer Logs that is launched by default when a user logs into an IBM Cloud Logs instance

Account preferences apply to user sessions across all views and pages.

By default, when a user launches the Explorer Logs > Logs section or logs into an IBM Cloud Logs instance that has the User-level default homepage set to Explorer Logs, the user lands on the default view layout.

As a user, you can configure the column layout, the filter options and the view mode such as JSON, condensed, 1 line, or 2 lines in the default Logs view. Then, you can save this configuration and set it as your default view. For more information, see Creating a custom view as default.

Then, the default homepage that is launched when the user logs in is set to the default view that the user hascconfigured for Logs Explorer.

Launch the Preferences UI in an IBM Cloud Logs instance

Complete the following steps to launch the preferences page in an IBM Cloud Logs instance:

1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation menu icon > Observability > Logging > Instances.

2. Select the IBM Cloud Logs instance. The default homepage opens.

3. Click the Avatar icon > Preferences.

   The Preferences page opens.

Next, change any setting.