Access Transparency and Access Approval

Explicitly approve access to your data or configurations on Google Cloud. Access Approval requests, when combined with Access Transparency logs, can be used to audit an end-to-end chain from support ticket to access request to approval, to eventual access.

View the reason for each access, including references to specific support tickets where relevant.

Identify the exact resources accessed by administrators and the methods run.

Integrate seamlessly into your existing Cloud Logging configuration.

View the country in which the administrator performing the action was based.

Take advantage of Google’s data-protection controls designed to limit support and engineering’s ability to access your data unless necessary.

Retrieve logs in near real time.