Services that support audit logging

The following table describes the components and services that support audit logging. If a service supports audit logging, it records all user activities specific to the service.

Any activity or observation that directly or indirectly returns, manages, or manipulates sensitive data or access to sensitive data is an auditable event.

The following table indicates the Cloud Pak for Data services that support audit logging.

Service Support Additional information
IBM Cloud Pak® for Data control plane For more information, see Audit events for Cloud Pak for Data platform.
Common core services For more information, see:
Scheduling service Not applicable The scheduling service is not directly accessed by end users and is installed as a cluster-wide resource.
The scheduling service uses Red Hat® OpenShift® audit logging. For more information, see Viewing audit logs in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation:
AI Factsheets For more information, see Audit events for AI Factsheets.
Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Not applicable This software is not installed on the cluster.
Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark For more information, see Audit events for Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark.
Cognos® Analytics No  
Cognos Dashboards For more information, see Audit events for Cognos Dashboards.
Data Privacy For more information, see Audit events for Data Privacy.
Data Refinery For more information, see Audit events for Data Refinery.
Data Replication No  
DataStage® For more information, see Audit events for DataStage.
Db2® You must enable auditing for individual databases and then forward the events to the Cloud Pak for Data audit service. For more information, see:
Db2 Big SQL For more information, see Audit events for Db2 Big SQL.
Db2 Data Gate No  
Db2 Data Management Console For more information, see Audit events for Db2 Data Management Console.
Db2 Warehouse You must enable auditing for individual databases and then forward the events to the Cloud Pak for Data audit service. For more information, see:
Decision Optimization For more information, see Audit events for Decision Optimization.
EDB Postgres No  
Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop No  
IBM Knowledge Catalog For more information, see Audit events for IBM Knowledge Catalog.
IBM Match 360 with Watson For more information, see Audit events for IBM Match 360 with Watson.
Informix® For more information, see Audit events for Informix.
MANTA Automated Data Lineage No  
MongoDB No  
OpenPages® You must enable audit logging in OpenPages. For more information, see:
Planning Analytics For more information, see Audit events for Planning Analytics.
Product Master No  
RStudio® Server Runtimes For more information, see Audit events for RStudio.
SPSS® Modeler For more information, see Audit events for SPSS Modeler.
Synthetic Data Generator For more information, see Audit events for Synthetic Data Generator.
Voice Gateway No  
Watson Discovery No  
Watson Machine Learning For more information, see Audit events for Watson Machine Learning.
Watson Machine Learning Accelerator For more information, see Audit events for Watson Machine Learning Accelerator.
Watson OpenScale For more information, see Audit events for Watson OpenScale.
Watson Pipelines For more information, see Audit events for Watson Pipelines.
Watson Query For more information, see Audit events for Watson Query.
Watson Speech services For more information, see Audit events for Watson Speech services.
Watson Studio For more information, see Audit events for Watson Studio.
Watson Studio Runtimes Not applicable This service does not have auditable events.
watsonx Assistant For more information, see Audit events for watsonx Assistant.
watsonx.ai For more information, see Audit events for watsonx.ai.
watsonx.data For more information, see Audit events for watsonx.data.
watsonx.governance For more information, see:
watsonx Orchestrate® No