Google Cloud platform logs

This document provides basic information about the Google Cloud platform logs that are available in Cloud Logging, as well as next steps for viewing and managing platform logs.

Overview

Logging receives, indexes, and stores log entries from Google Cloud services. Google Cloud platform logs are service-specific logs that can help you debug and troubleshoot issues, as well as better understand the Google Cloud services you're using.

The Google Cloud platform logs visible to you in Cloud Logging vary, depending on which Google Cloud resources you're using in your Google Cloud project or organization.

When using this document, note the following:

• Not all Google Cloud services implement platform logs. For an expanding (non-exhaustive) list of the services that implement platform logs, see the following Index of Google Cloud platform logs.
• Each Google Cloud service that implements platform logs manages its own configuration. Refer to service-specific documentation to determine whether the service enables platform logs by default and how to enable or disable platform logs.

Index of Google Cloud platform logs

Following are tables of some of the Google Cloud platform logs supported by Cloud Logging. To understand the data contained in the tables, see Log entry structure on this page.

Note: This index is actively being expanded to include more Google Cloud platform logs. This index isn't an exhaustive list of all the Google Cloud platform logs available in Cloud Logging. For a list of Google Cloud services with monitored resources in Cloud Logging, see Monitored resources and services.

AlloyDB

Logging API service name: alloydb.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
alloydb.googleapis.com%2Fpostgres.log	alloydb.googleapis.com/Instance	The PostgreSQL database logs.
alloydb.googleapis.com%2Fjournald	alloydb.googleapis.com/Instance	Container logs for dataplane agents.
alloydb.googleapis.com%2Fpostgresinternal	alloydb.googleapis.com/Instance	The internal dogfish logs.
alloydb.googleapis.com%2Finstance_agent	saas_instance	Logs for instance agent running on AlloyDB VM.

Application Integration

Logging API service name: integrations.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
integrations.googleapis.com%2Fexecution_info	integrations.googleapis.com/IntegrationVersion	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.integrations.v1alpha.ExecutionInfo

Assured Workloads

Logging API service name: assuredworkloads.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
assuredworkloads.googleapis.com%2Fregulatory_intercept_ack	folder	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.assuredworkloads.regulatoryintercept.logging.v1.RegulatoryInterceptAckLogEntry
assuredworkloads.googleapis.com%2Fregulatory_intercept_ack	project	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.assuredworkloads.regulatoryintercept.logging.v1.RegulatoryInterceptAckLogEntry

Backup for GKE

Logging API service name: gkebackup.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
gkebackup.googleapis.com%2Fbackup_change	gkebackup.googleapis.com/BackupPlan	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.gkebackup.logging.v1.BackupChange
gkebackup.googleapis.com%2Fbackup_plan_change	gkebackup.googleapis.com/BackupPlan	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.gkebackup.logging.v1.BackupPlanChange
gkebackup.googleapis.com%2Frestore_change	gkebackup.googleapis.com/RestorePlan	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.gkebackup.logging.v1.RestoreChange
gkebackup.googleapis.com%2Frestore_plan_change	gkebackup.googleapis.com/RestorePlan	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.gkebackup.logging.v1.RestorePlanChange

BigQuery Data Transfer API

Logging API service name: bigquerydatatransfer.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
bigquerydatatransfer.googleapis.com%2Ftransfer_config	bigquery_dts_config	Debug logs for BigQuery Data Transfer runs. Describes the current status of the transfer run.

Certificate Manager

Logging API service name: certificatemanager.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
certificatemanager.googleapis.com%2Fcertificates_expiry	certificatemanager.googleapis.com/Project	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.certificatemanager.logging.v1.CertificatesExpiry

Chat

Logging API service name: chat.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
chat.googleapis.com%2Ferrors	chat.googleapis.com/Project	type.googleapis.com/google.chat.logging.v1.ChatAppLogEntry

Cloud Backup and DR

Logging API service name: backupdr.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
backupdr.googleapis.com%2Fbackup_recovery_appliance_events	backupdr.googleapis.com/BackupRecoveryAppliance	type.googleapis.com/cloud.backupdr.logging.v1.Event

Cloud Database Migration Service

Logging API service name: datamigration.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
datamigration.googleapis.com%2Fmigration_job_event	datamigration.googleapis.com/MigrationJob	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.clouddms.logging.v1.MigrationJobEventLog
datamigration.googleapis.com%2Fconnection_profile_event	datamigration.googleapis.com/ConnectionProfile	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.clouddms.logging.v1.ConnectionProfileEventLog
datamigration.googleapis.com%2Fprivate_connection_event	datamigration.googleapis.com/PrivateConnection	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.clouddms.logging.v1.PrivateConnectionEventLog

Cloud Datastream

Logging API service name: datastream.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
datastream.googleapis.com%2Fstream_activity	datastream.googleapis.com/Stream	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.datastream.logging.v1.StreamActivityLogEntry

Cloud Deploy

Logging API service name: clouddeploy.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Frelease_render	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/DeliveryPipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.ReleaseRenderEvent
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Frollout_notification	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/DeliveryPipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.RolloutNotificationEvent
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Fdeliverypipeline_notification	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/DeliveryPipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.DeliveryPipelineNotificationEvent
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Ftarget_notification	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/Target	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.TargetNotificationEvent
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Frelease_notification	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/DeliveryPipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.ReleaseNotificationEvent
clouddeploy.googleapis.com%2Fjobrun_notification	clouddeploy.googleapis.com/DeliveryPipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.deploy.v1.JobRunNotificationEvent

Cloud Functions

Logging API service name: cloudfunctions.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
cloudfunctions.googleapis.com%2Fcloud-functions	cloud_function	Cloud Functions writes logs to this stream that indicate the start and end of execution, as well as the stdout and stderr from those executions.

Cloud IDS

Logging API service name: ids.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
ids.googleapis.com%2Fthreat	ids.googleapis.com/Endpoint	Threat logs from the Cloud IDS endpoint.
ids.googleapis.com%2Finstance_agent	saas_instance	Logs for instance agent running on Cloud IDS VM.
ids.googleapis.com%2Ftraffic	ids.googleapis.com/Endpoint	Traffic logs from the Cloud IDS endpoint.

Cloud Load Balancing

Logging API service name: loadbalancing.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
loadbalancing.googleapis.com%2Frequests	internal_http_lb_rule	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.loadbalancing.type.LoadBalancerLogEntry
loadbalancing.googleapis.com%2Fexternal_regional_requests	http_external_regional_lb_rule	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.loadbalancing.type.LoadBalancerLogEntry

Cloud Locations

Logging API service name: cloud.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
cloud.googleapis.com%2Fipsec_events	vpn_gateway	VPN Tunnel logs from the VPN Gateway instance

Cloud Monitoring API

Logging API service name: monitoring.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	uptime_url	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	gae_app	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	gce_instance	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	aws_ec2_instance	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	aws_elb_load_balancer	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	k8s_service	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	servicedirectory_service	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult
monitoring.googleapis.com%2Fuptime_checks	cloud_run_revision	type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckConfig, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.UptimeCheckResult, type.googleapis.com/google.monitoring.v3.SyntheticTestResult

Cloud OS Config

Logging API service name: osconfig.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
osconfig.googleapis.com%2Fpatch_job	cloud_osconfig_patch_job	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.osconfig.logging.PatchJobCompletedLog

Cloud Run

Logging API service name: run.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
run.googleapis.com%2Fstdout	cloud_run_revision	Cloud Run stdout logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to stdout from the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2Fstderr	cloud_run_revision	Cloud Run stderr logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to stderr from the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2Frequests	cloud_run_revision	Cloud Run request logs. Each request served by a Cloud Run service should have a corresponding request log entry.
run.googleapis.com%2F/dev/log	cloud_run_revision	Cloud Run syslogs. These are syslog-structured logs written to /dev/log in the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2F/var/log	cloud_run_revision	Cloud Run /var/log logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to /var/log/** from the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2Fstdout	cloud_run_job	Cloud Run stdout logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to stdout from the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2Fstderr	cloud_run_job	Cloud Run stderr logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to stderr from the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2F/dev/log	cloud_run_job	Cloud Run syslogs. These are syslog-structured logs written to /dev/log in the user container.
run.googleapis.com%2F/var/log	cloud_run_job	Cloud Run /var/log logs. Each entry contains a line (or multiple lines, if they match a known multi-line exception format like a stack trace) written to /var/log/** from the user container.

Cloud SQL

Logging API service name: cloudsql.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fmysql.err	cloudsql_database	The error log contains a record and diagnostic messages such as errors, warnings, and notes that occur during server startup, shutdown, and while the server is running.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fmysql-slow.log	cloudsql_database	The slow query log consists of SQL statements that take more than long_query_time seconds to execute.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fmysql-general.log	cloudsql_database	The general query log records when clients connect or disconnect, and it logs each SQL statement received from clients.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Freplication-setup.log	cloudsql_database	They are related to external server replication setup.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Freplication-status.log	cloudsql_database	They are related to external server replication status monitoring.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fmysql-upgrade.log	cloudsql_database	Used to contain mysql_upgrade logs. Now deprecated.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fpostgres.log	cloudsql_database	It contains the database server's log output from the Cloud SQL instance.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fpostgres-audit.log	cloudsql_database	It contains the audit log entries from the pgAudit extension in the Cloud SQL instance.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fsqlserver.err	cloudsql_database	These logs are from the SQL Server errorlog on the Cloud SQL instance.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fsqlagent.out	cloudsql_database	These logs are from sqlagent.out on the Cloud SQL instance.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Foperationdetails.log	cloudsql_database	These logs show details of long running operations such as Import SQL for SQL Server instances.
cloudsql.googleapis.com%2Fpostgres-upgrade.log	cloudsql_database	It contains log output by pg_upgrade during database major version upgrade.

Cloud Setup

Logging API service name: cloudsetup.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
cloudsetup.googleapis.com%2Fcomplete_deployment	api	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.cloudsetup.logging.v1.CompleteDeploymentEvent

Cloud VPN

Logging API service name: vpn.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
vpn.googleapis.com%2Fipsec_events	vpn_gateway	VPN Tunnel logs from the VPN Gateway instance

Cloud Workstations

Logging API service name: workstations.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
workstations.googleapis.com%2Fdisk_assignments	workstations.googleapis.com/Workstation	Disk assignment logs
workstations.googleapis.com%2Fvm_assignments	workstations.googleapis.com/Workstation	VM assignment logs

Container Security API

Logging API service name: containersecurity.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
containersecurity.googleapis.com%2Ffinding	k8s_cluster	type.googleapis.com/cloud.kubernetes.security.containersecurity_logging.Finding

Dataform

Logging API service name: dataform.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
dataform.googleapis.com%2Fworkflow_invocation_completion	dataform.googleapis.com/Repository	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.dataform.logging.v1.WorkflowInvocationCompletionLogEntry

Datapipelines API

Logging API service name: datapipelines.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
datapipelines.googleapis.com%2Frequests	datapipelines.googleapis.com/Location	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.datapipelines.logging.v1.RequestLogEntry
datapipelines.googleapis.com%2Frequests	datapipelines.googleapis.com/Pipeline	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.datapipelines.logging.v1.RequestLogEntry

Dataproc

Logging API service name: dataproc.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
dataproc.googleapis.com%2Fautoscaler	cloud_dataproc_cluster	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.dataproc.logging.AutoscalerLog
dataproc.googleapis.com%2Fautoscaler	cloud_dataproc_batch	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.dataproc.logging.AutoscalerLog
dataproc.googleapis.com%2Fautoscaler	cloud_dataproc_session	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.dataproc.logging.AutoscalerLog

Dataproc Metastore

Logging API service name: metastore.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
metastore.googleapis.com%2Fbackground	metastore.googleapis.com/Service	Dataproc Metastore background logs.
metastore.googleapis.com%2Fsystem	metastore.googleapis.com/Service	Service system logs.
metastore.googleapis.com%2Frequests	metastore.googleapis.com/Service	Service request logs.

Event Threat Detection

Logging API service name: threatdetection.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
threatdetection.googleapis.com%2Fdetection	threat_detector	Event Threat Detection finding.

Firestore/Datastore

Logging API service name: datastore.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
datastore.googleapis.com%2Fmigration_state	datastore_database	type.googleapis.com/google.datastore.admin.v1.MigrationStateEvent
datastore.googleapis.com%2Fmigration_progress	datastore_database	type.googleapis.com/google.datastore.admin.v1.MigrationProgressEvent

GKE On-prem (Anthos)

Logging API service name: anthos.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_engine	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_engine on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_ha	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_ha on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_healthcheck	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_healthcheck on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_ncc	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_ncc on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_ecu	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_ecu on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.
anthos.googleapis.com%2Fseesaw_config	anthos_l4lb	These logs are from seesaw_config on the Seesaw VM instances running in GKE OnPrem.

Google Binary Authorization API

Logging API service name: binaryauthorization.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
binaryauthorization.googleapis.com%2Fcontinuous_validation	k8s_cluster	v1beta1: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.binaryauthorization.v1beta1.ContinuousValidationEvent

Google Workspace Add-ons

Logging API service name: gsuiteaddons.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
gsuiteaddons.googleapis.com%2Ferrors	g_suite_add_ons	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.gsuiteaddons.logging.v1.GSuiteAddOnsLogEntry

Identity Toolkit

Logging API service name: identitytoolkit.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
identitytoolkit.googleapis.com%2Frequests	identitytoolkit_project	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.identitytoolkit.logging.RequestLog
identitytoolkit.googleapis.com%2Frequests	identitytoolkit_tenant	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.identitytoolkit.logging.RequestLog

Immersive Stream for XR

Logging API service name: stream.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
stream.googleapis.com%2Fsession_event	stream.googleapis.com/StreamInstance	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.stream.logging.v1.SessionEventLog

Issuer Switch Service

Logging API service name: issuerswitch.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
issuerswitch.googleapis.com%2Fpgis_activity	issuerswitch.googleapis.com/UPIInstance	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.paymentgateway.issuerswitch.v1.UpiTransaction

Key Management Service

Logging API service name: cloudkms.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
cloudkms.googleapis.com%2Fcryptokey_events	cloudkms_cryptokey	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.kms.logging.v1.CryptoKeyEvent
cloudkms.googleapis.com%2Fcryptokeyversion_events	cloudkms_cryptokeyversion	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.kms.logging.v1.CryptoKeyVersionEvent

Live Stream API

Logging API service name: livestream.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
livestream.googleapis.com%2Fchannel_activities	livestream.googleapis.com/Channel	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.video.livestream.logging.v1.ChannelActivity

Logging API

Logging API service name: logging.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
logging.googleapis.com%2Fsink_error	logging_sink	A report of an error encountered while trying to export data to a configured log sink.
logging.googleapis.com%2Fmetric_throttled	metric	Informs customer that a metric associated with Logs-based metrics is being throttled.

Network Analyzer

Logging API service name: networkanalyzer.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
networkanalyzer.googleapis.com%2Fanalyzer_reports	networking.googleapis.com/Location	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.networkanalyzer.logging.v1.Report

Partner Data Ingestion

Logging API service name: partnerdataingestion.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
partnerdataingestion.googleapis.com%2Fingest_details	consumed_api	type.googleapis.com/google.search.partnerdataingestion.logging.v1.IngestDetailsLog

Recommender API

Logging API service name: recommender.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
recommender.googleapis.com%2Factions	recommender	v1: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recommender.logging.v1.ActionLog v1beta1: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recommender.logging.v1beta1.ActionLog
recommender.googleapis.com%2Factions	recommender_insight_type	v1: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recommender.logging.v1.InsightActionLog v1beta1: type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recommender.logging.v1beta1.InsightActionLog

SaaS Lifecycle Management

Logging API service name: saasmanagement.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
saasmanagement.googleapis.com%2Fterraform_internal	saasmanagement.googleapis.com/Instance	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.saasaccelerator.management.logs.v1.InstanceEvent

Secret Manager API

Logging API service name: secretmanager.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
secretmanager.googleapis.com%2Fsecret_event	secretmanager.googleapis.com/Secret	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.secretmanager.logging.v1.SecretEvent

Sensitive Actions Service

Logging API service name: sensitiveaction.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
sensitiveaction.googleapis.com%2Faction	sensitiveaction.googleapis.com/Location	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.sensitiveaction.logging.v1.SensitiveAction

Serial Console

Logging API service name: serialconsole.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
serialconsole.googleapis.com%2Fserial_port_1_output	gce_instance	A virtual machine instance has four virtual serial ports. The instance's operating system, BIOS, and other system-level entities often write output to the serial ports, which makes them useful for troubleshooting crashes, failed boots, startup issues, or shutdown issues.
serialconsole.googleapis.com%2Fserial_port_2_output	gce_instance	A virtual machine instance has four virtual serial ports. The instance's operating system, BIOS, and other system-level entities often write output to the serial ports, which makes them useful for troubleshooting crashes, failed boots, startup issues, or shutdown issues.
serialconsole.googleapis.com%2Fserial_port_3_output	gce_instance	A virtual machine instance has four virtual serial ports. The instance's operating system, BIOS, and other system-level entities often write output to the serial ports, which makes them useful for troubleshooting crashes, failed boots, startup issues, or shutdown issues.
serialconsole.googleapis.com%2Fserial_port_4_output	gce_instance	A virtual machine instance has four virtual serial ports. The instance's operating system, BIOS, and other system-level entities often write output to the serial ports, which makes them useful for troubleshooting crashes, failed boots, startup issues, or shutdown issues.
serialconsole.googleapis.com%2Fserial_port_debug_output	gce_instance	A virtual machine instance has four virtual serial ports. The instance's operating system, BIOS, and other system-level entities often write output to the serial ports, which makes them useful for troubleshooting crashes, failed boots, startup issues, or shutdown issues.

Storage Transfer

Logging API service name: storagetransfer.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
storagetransfer.googleapis.com%2Ftransfer_activity	storage_transfer_job	type.googleapis.com/google.storagetransfer.logging.TransferActivityLog

Traffic Director

Logging API service name: trafficdirector.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
trafficdirector.googleapis.com%2Fevents	gce_network	type.googleapis.com/google.networking.trafficdirector.type.TrafficDirectorLogEntry
trafficdirector.googleapis.com%2Fevents	gateway_scope	type.googleapis.com/google.networking.trafficdirector.type.TrafficDirectorLogEntry
trafficdirector.googleapis.com%2Fevents	mesh	type.googleapis.com/google.networking.trafficdirector.type.TrafficDirectorLogEntry

Vertex AI API

Logging API service name: aiplatform.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
aiplatform.googleapis.com%2Fpipeline_job_events	aiplatform.googleapis.com/PipelineJob	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.aiplatform.logging.PipelineJobLogEntry

Web Security Scanner API

Logging API service name: websecurityscanner.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
websecurityscanner.googleapis.com%2Fscan_activity	security_scanner_scan_config	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.websecurityscanner.v1.ScanRunLog

Workflows

Logging API service name: workflows.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
workflows.googleapis.com%2Fengine_call	workflows.googleapis.com/Workflow	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.workflows.type.EngineCallLog
workflows.googleapis.com%2Fexecutions_system	workflows.googleapis.com/Workflow	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.workflows.type.ExecutionsSystemLog

reCAPTCHA Enterprise

Logging API service name: recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com

Log ID	Monitored resource	Payload
recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com%2Fassessment	recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com/Key	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recaptchaenterprise.v1.Assessment
recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com%2Fannotation	recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com/Key	type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.recaptchaenterprise.v1.AnnotateAssessmentRequest

Understand and manage platform logs

The following sections provide basic information about using and managing platform logs in Cloud Logging.

Log entry structure

Cloud Logging represents logs using a single data type, LogEntry, which defines certain common data for all log entries as well as the payloads that Google Cloud services can include. For detailed information about the contents of log entries, see the Logging API reference for the LogEntry type.

The index of platform logs highlights the following characteristics of log entries:

• Log ID: The URL-encoded identifier within logName. For example, if the broader log name is organizations/1234567890/logs/cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com%2Factivity, then the log ID is cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com%2Factivity.

  Note that if the log ID string in a log entry's logName field is prefixed by serviceName.googleapis.com, it is a Google Cloud platform log entry.

• Monitored resource: The resource from which the log entry originated. This consists of a resource type from the Monitored resource list and additional label values that identify a specific instance.

• Payload: The log entry payload, which can be represented as textPayload or jsonPayload.

View logs

There are several ways to view your platform log entries:

• To read log entries using the Google Cloud console, see Using the Logs Explorer.
• To read log entries through the Logging API, see the entries.list method.
• To read log entries using the Google Cloud CLI, see Reading log entries.

Route logs

You can control how your log entries are routed and stored. The Log Router checks each log entry against existing rules to determine which log entries to discard, which log entries to store in Cloud Logging, and which log entries to include in exports to other destinations.

For details, see Routing and storage overview: Log Router.

Logs retention

Log entries are stored in Logging buckets for a specified length of time and are then deleted. For more information, see Logs retention periods.

Pricing

For information on logs pricing, see Logging pricing.