Google Cloud Essentials — selected guide
Cloud logging
Eight concise orientations to compute, storage, containers, projects, delivery, logs, and errors
Eight 2020–2022 explainers introduce compute, storage, containers, Firebase projects, build tools, logging, and error reporting through the workloads each service supports.
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Cloud Logging collects records from applications and infrastructure in one place, so an investigation does not require searching each system separately. Google manages the log storage, while queries select the events relevant to a problem. 00:00–03:09(opens in a new tab)
Key Points Covered
- Keep the event and its source together. Each log entry contains a payload—the message as text or structured data—and identifies the resource that produced it. Examples include a VM starting, a file upload, and application output. Queries filter records by resource, severity, and time. 01:02–03:09(opens in a new tab)
- Control how much is stored. The video shows alerts on monthly ingestion volume and exclusions that prevent selected logs from being stored. These address different needs: one warns about volume, while the other reduces it. 02:06–03:09(opens in a new tab)
- Route logs for other uses. Exporting to Cloud Storage supports archiving; BigQuery supports further analysis; Pub/Sub can pass logs to other storage systems. 03:09–04:02(opens in a new tab)
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDp-Cl_MdA(opens in a new tab)