Trigger function from Cloud Logging

Triggers a function based on Cloud Logging entries.

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Code sample

Go

To authenticate to Cloud Functions, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 


// Package log contains examples for handling Cloud Functions logs.
package log

import (
	"context"
	"log"
)

// PubSubMessage is the payload of a Pub/Sub event.
// See the documentation for more details:
// https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/reference/rest/v1/PubsubMessage
type PubSubMessage struct {
	Data []byte `json:"data"`
}

// ProcessLogEntry processes a Pub/Sub message from Cloud Logging.
func ProcessLogEntry(ctx context.Context, m PubSubMessage) error {
	log.Printf("Log entry data: %s", string(m.Data))
	return nil
}

Java

To authenticate to Cloud Functions, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 


import com.google.cloud.functions.BackgroundFunction;
import com.google.cloud.functions.Context;
import functions.eventpojos.PubsubMessage;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class StackdriverLogging implements BackgroundFunction<PubsubMessage> {
  private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(StackdriverLogging.class.getName());

  @Override
  public void accept(PubsubMessage message, Context context) {
    String name = "World";

    if (!message.getData().isEmpty()) {
      name = new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(
          message.getData().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
    String res = String.format("Hello, %s", name);
    logger.info(res);
  }
}

Node.js

To authenticate to Cloud Functions, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

exports.processLogEntry = data => {
  const dataBuffer = Buffer.from(data.data, 'base64');

  const logEntry = JSON.parse(dataBuffer.toString('ascii')).protoPayload;
  console.log(`Method: ${logEntry.methodName}`);
  console.log(`Resource: ${logEntry.resourceName}`);
  console.log(`Initiator: ${logEntry.authenticationInfo.principalEmail}`);
};

Python

To authenticate to Cloud Functions, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

import base64
import json

def process_log_entry(data, context):
    data_buffer = base64.b64decode(data["data"])
    log_entry = json.loads(data_buffer)["protoPayload"]

    print(f"Method: {log_entry['methodName']}")
    print(f"Resource: {log_entry['resourceName']}")
    print(f"Initiator: {log_entry['authenticationInfo']['principalEmail']}")

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