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POST
Create a log group
Requires the IAM action telemetry:CreateLogGroup. See TELEMETRY permissions for the full list, what each one covers, and an example policy.

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

An OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. This is the recommended way to authenticate.

Get one by exchanging a service account's access key pair at POST /v1/oauth/token with grant_type=client_credentials. It is the standard client-credentials grant, so any OAuth-aware library will obtain and refresh it for you.

Tokens last an hour by default. The same access key pair is separately your AWS SigV4 credential for the S3-compatible object endpoint, which speaks nothing else.

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Optional client-generated key that makes a create replay-safe. Retrying a request with the same key returns the original outcome verbatim instead of creating a duplicate resource. Reusing a key with a different request body is rejected (422); a request whose key is still being processed returns 409. Records are honored for 24 hours. Use a UUID or similarly unique token.

Maximum string length: 255

Body

application/json
name
string
required

Resource names must not start with the literal crn: prefix or be UUIDs (canonical, compact, braced, or urn:uuid: forms, in either case).

Example:

"app/prod/api"

description
string
Example:

"Production API request logs"

retention_days
enum<integer> | null

Retention in days. Omit or use null for no expiry.

Available options:
1,
3,
5,
7,
14,
30,
60,
90,
120,
150,
180,
365,
400,
545,
731,
1096,
1827,
2192,
2557,
2922,
3288,
3653,
null
Example:

30

kms_key
string

KMS key UUID, CRN or exact name in the authenticated account and serving region. The resolved UUID is pinned; deleting a key and reusing its name never retargets existing data. An empty string selects plaintext.

Example:

"crn:kms:sa-saopaulo-1:my-account:key/service-key"

tags
object

Response

Log group created

log_group
object
required