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Flow Analyzer analyzes VPC Flow Logs data that is stored in a log bucket.

Before you begin

1. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

2. Make sure the project has a log bucket that contains VPC Flow Logs.

Upgrade the log bucket to use Log Analytics

Note: There are no associated costs or charges to upgrade the log bucket and use Log Analytics and run queries in Flow Analyzer.

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Flow Analyzer page.

   Go to Flow Analyzer

2. Click Enable Flow Logs. The VPC networks page appears.

3. To upgrade the chosen log bucket (that contains VPC Flow Logs) to use Flow Analyzer, click Upgrade. For more information, see Upgrade a bucket to use Log Analytics