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Database Migration Service uses Cloud Logging. You can access two log categories to
acquire detailed information on events that occur with relation to your migration
jobs: Database Migration Service logs, and the destination Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL logs.
Each log entry contains a jsonPayload.textMessage field with a description to
help you better understand the event. There are different types of messages,
for example:
Sample log messages for the
datamigration.googleapis.com/MigrationJob resource
Log text message
Description
FULL DUMP read is completed for table: {SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME}
This message means that Database Migration Service finished reading
specific table data in your source database for the full dump phase.
This message indicates that the full dump phase for the table is
in an advanced stage and is likely to complete shortly.
Successfully loaded {NUMBER} FULL DUMP rows into table: {SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME}
This message means that Database Migration Service finished writing a batch of
rows into a specific table in your destination instance during the full dump
phase.
Successfully applied {NUMBER} CDC rows into table: {SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME}
This message means that Database Migration Service finished writing a batch of
rows into a specific table in your destination instance during the CDC phase.
Accessing data of table: {SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME} for data processing purpose
When you
use a CMEK
for your migration job, this message indicates that
Database Migration Service accessed the encryption key to process data
for a specific table.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance logs
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL also provides log entries for your destination instance.
See the
Cloud SQL logs reference in the Cloud Logging documentation.
View and query logs
To view your logs, perform the following:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the
Migration jobs page.
In the Jobs tab, click the display name of the migration job
for which you want to view logs.
The migration job details page opens.
On the migration job details page, click View logs and perform one
of the following:
To view migration job logs, select Migration job logs.
To view logs for your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL destination instance,
select Destination instance logs.
The Logs Explorer page opens.
On the Logs Explorer page, you can use the drop-down menus
to modify the query and filter log entries. For example, to filter migration
job logs for events where Database Migration Service accessed a specific table in your
source database, you can use a query similar to the following:
resource.type="datamigration.googleapis.com/MigrationJob"
resource.labels.migration_job_id="MIGRATION_JOB_ID"
jsonPayload.textMessage:"Accessing data of table"
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