Required permissions

To upgrade or delete a service instance, you must have Administrator or Editor platform access roles in the IBM Cloud account for Cloud Pak for Data as a Service. If you signed up for Cloud Pak for Data as a Service with your own IBM Cloud account, you are the owner of the account. Otherwise, you can check your IBM Cloud account roles and permissions.

To launch Watson OpenScale from Cloud Pak for Data as a Service:

1. From the navigation menu , choose Services > Service instances.
2. Click your watsonx.governance service instance.
3. From the Service Details page, click Launch Watson OpenScale.

Upgrading Watson OpenScale from a Lite to a paid plan

You can upgrade IBM Watson OpenScale from a free Lite plan to a paid plan by using the IBM Cloud dashboard.

1. From the Watson OpenScale dashboard, click your profile.
2. Click View upgrade options.
3. Select the Standard v2 plan and click Upgrade.

Deleting the Watson OpenScale service instance and data

You can delete the Watson OpenScale service instance and related data. After 30 days of inactivity, the data mart is automatically deleted for a Lite plan.

When the data mart is deleted, it includes the service configuration settings and tables.

• All configuration tables are deleted including the following configuration tables and files:

  • Bindings
  • Subscriptions
  • Settings

• All the tables that are created for model evaluation are deleted, including, but not limited to, the following tables:

  • Payload
  • Feedback
  • Manual labeling
  • monitors
  • Performance
  • Explanation
  • Annotation tables

Next steps

Setup options for Watson OpenScale.

Parent topic: Evaluating AI models with Watson OpenScale