Starting May 31, 2023, Alibaba Cloud no longer maintains the event history feature on the Event Center page of the ApsaraDB RDS console. The two capabilities previously covered by this feature are now handled by dedicated services: ActionTrail for event tracking and CloudMonitor for instance event subscription.
Discontinued feature
The event history feature on the Event Center page of the ApsaraDB RDS console.
Effective date
May 31, 2023
Potential impacts
Your RDS instance is affected only if the event history feature was enabled:
If the feature was enabled: The Historical Event tab on the Event Center page and the following API operations are no longer updated or maintained after May 31, 2023: DescribeEvents (query historical events), DescribeActionEventPolicy (query feature status), and ModifyActionEventPolicy (enable or disable the feature).
ImportantData displayed on the Historical Event tab may be incomplete or incorrect after May 31, 2023.
If the feature was disabled: Your RDS instance is not affected.
Replacement options
The event history feature covered two distinct capabilities. Each is now handled by a dedicated service:
| Original capability | Replacement service | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Event tracking | ActionTrail | ActionTrail console |
| Instance event subscription | CloudMonitor | CloudMonitor system events |
ActionTrail replaces the event tracking capability of event history. ActionTrail records actions taken by your Alibaba Cloud account, including access to cloud services through the Alibaba Cloud Management Console, APIs, and SDKs. To configure trails and query events programmatically, see the ActionTrail API overview.
CloudMonitor replaces the instance event subscription capability of event history. CloudMonitor lets you subscribe to system events for your RDS instance, including scheduled O&M events, primary/secondary switchover events, unavailability events, serverless events, notification events, and optimization events.