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Simple Log Service:Enable the collection of control plane logs and audit logs of a master instance

Last Updated:Jul 10, 2025

This topic describes how to enable the collection of control plane logs and audit logs of a master instance in the Distributed Cloud Container Platform for Kubernetes (ACK One) console. After you enable the log collection feature, the related logs are delivered to Log Service.

Prerequisites

An ACK cluster is created. For more information, see Create a cluster.

Procedure

Method 1: Enable the collection of control plane logs and audit logs when you create a master instance

  1. Log on to the ACK One console.

  2. In the Create Fleet panel, turn on Enable Collection of Operation Logs and Auditing Logs and click Create.

    For more information about other parameters, see Create a Fleet instance.

Method 2: Enable the collection of control plane logs and audit logs for an existing master instance

  1. Log on to the ACK One console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Fleet > Fleet Observability.

  3. On the Fleet Log Center page, click the Audit Logs or Logs of Control Plane Components tab, then click Enable.

Related operations

Operation

Description

View logs

You can view logs in the ACK One console or Simple Log Service console. For more information, see View control plane logs and audit logs.

Disable the log collection feature

In the Advanced Settings section of the Basic Information tab, turn off Enable Collection of Operation Logs and Auditing Logs.

Important

If you disable the log collection feature, the project and pushed logs are not automatically deleted. To prevent additional fees, you can delete the corresponding project that is used to store logs in the Simple Log Service console after you disable the log collection feature. For more information, see Manage a project.

What to do next

After the control plane logs and audit logs of a master instance are delivered to Simple Log Service, you can query, analyze, download, ship, and transform the logs in the Simple Log Service console. You can also create alert rules for the logs. For more information, see Common operations on logs of Alibaba Cloud services.