Release notes (consolidated)

This page provides a consolidated list of the release notes for all of the products in Google Cloud's operations suite. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

You can find the release notes for the individual products on the following pages:

You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the Google Cloud page, browse and filter all release notes in the Google Cloud Console, or you can programmatically access release notes in BigQuery.

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October 20, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now collect MySQL logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.5.0. For more information, see Collecting logs from third-party applications: MySQL.

You can now collect Redis logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.5.0. For more information, see Collecting logs from third-party applications: Redis.

You can now collect Cassandra logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.5.0. For more information, see Collecting logs from third-party applications: Cassandra.

October 11, 2021

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging now supports the asia-south2, asia-southeast2, australia-southeast2, northamerica-northeast2, and us-west4 regions. For a full list or regions, see Regionalization.

October 06, 2021

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging

You can now collect nginx metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.1.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: nginx.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect nginx metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.1.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: nginx.

August 30, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

The VM Instances page features enhanced scorecards for VM health. The new scorecards now include both "maintenance" and "system" events that might affect your VMs and agents, along with other metrics and statistics about the health of your VMs. The filtering and sorting of the Inventory table have also been enhanced.

August 18, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now use Chef to install and manage the Google Cloud operations suite agents across your fleet of Linux and Windows VMs. For more information, refer to the Chef Integration documentation.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use Chef to install and manage the Google Cloud operations suite agents across your fleet of Linux and Windows VMs. For more information, refer to the Chef Integration documentation.

August 12, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring now supports creating an uptime check against a Kubernetes LoadBalancer Service hosted on GKE. For more information, see Managing uptime checks.

August 09, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

When you create a line chart on a dashboard, you can now specify whether the selected metric is charted against the left Y-axis or the right Y-axis. This feature lets you display different metrics with different scales on the same chart. For an API example, see Dashboard with an XyChart and a threshold.

August 05, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

A new UI for creating alerting policies is available in Preview. This interface offers fine-grained control over the selection of the metrics used in alerting conditions. See Managing Alerting Policies for more information.

The Processes tab in the VM instances page is now Generally Available. This tab adds charts for process metrics to the charts provided by the existing CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network tabs.

August 02, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now use Puppet to install and manage the Google Cloud operations suite agents across your fleet of Linux and Windows VMs. For more information, refer to the Puppet Integration documentation.

Cloud Monitoring

The API to manage the metrics scope of a Google Cloud project is now in Preview. For more information, see Manage metrics scopes with the API.

Cloud Logging

You can now use Cloud External Key Manager keys for organization-level Log Router CMEK. For more information, see Enabling customer-managed encryption keys for Log Router.

July 15, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now view Monitoring data and link to the resources in the Cloud Console for Compute Engine logs in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Viewing Monitoring data.

July 13, 2021

Cloud Logging

The Cloud Console now supports creating Logging sinks at the organization or folder level. For information on creating sinks, see Exporting logs with the Google Cloud Console.

Starting on October 12, 2021, your Dataflow logs that are ingested and stored in Cloud Logging will be charged at the standard Cloud Logging prices. It's recommended that you review the volume of Dataflow logs ingested into Cloud Logging through Metrics Explorer in Cloud Monitoring. For information on optimizing the log volume for your Dataflow jobs, see Controlling log volume.

Cloud Monitoring

Metrics Explorer, a stand-alone charting tool that lets you quickly chart and explore time-series data, has a new interface and supports enhanced aggregation options. For more information, see Metrics Explorer.

The VM instances page has a new Processes tab in Preview. This tab adds charts for process metrics to the charts provided by the existing CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network tabs.

July 12, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now install the Logging and Monitoring agents on multiple VMs from the Inventory tab on the Cloud Monitoring VM Instances page. You can select multiple VMs in your fleet for agent installation. The page generates the necessary installation command and provides a link to Cloud Shell, where you can run the command.

Cloud Monitoring

A warning annotation is now added to charts when they are missing data due to a data outage. When the annotation is absent, data gaps aren't due to a data outage. For common reasons why a chart might contain a data gap, see Gaps in chart data.

July 09, 2021

Cloud Trace

Cloud Trace announces that the OpenTelemetry library for Java is now generally available. For information about configuring your Java application to use Open Telemetry, see Java and OpenTelemetry.

July 08, 2021

Error Reporting

Error Reporting notifications has been upgraded to use the Alerting infrastructure. For more information, see the Notifications guide.

July 07, 2021

Cloud Logging

The Share link feature for queries in the Logs Explorer now lets you choose whether to include an absolute time range or a relative time range. With an absolute time range, the query includes static time values for the results, so the query always returns the same results. With a relative time range, you can set a value like "last 1 hour", and the results change as time passes.

Preview: Cloud Logging now supports alerts based on matching the content of your logs. When triggered, a log-based alert notifies you that a match has appeared in your logs and opens an incident in Cloud Monitoring. You can create log-based alerts by using the Logs Explorer or the Monitoring API. For more information, see Monitoring your logs and Using log-based alerts.

Cloud Monitoring

July 02, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

You can now display summaries of single-condition alerting policies on a custom dashboard. A policy summary includes a display of the monitored time series, the threshold, and chips that show the number of open incidents and whether the policy is disabled. For more information about Alert charts, see the following pages:

Dashboard-wide filters now apply to all charts on a dashboard. Prior to this change, these filters didn't apply to MQL-configured charts.

June 30, 2021

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging lets you copy logs from a Cloud Logging bucket to a Cloud Storage bucket. To learn more, see Copying log entries.

The Ops Agent is now Generally Available as version 2.0.0. This agent combines logging and metrics into a single agent. The Ops Agent is targeted toward specialized logging workloads that require higher throughput and improved resource efficiency.

For installation information, see Installing the Ops Agent. For information about migrating from an earlier version, see the transition guide.

The GA version of the Ops Agent can be configured to collect specific sets of metrics, as described in Configuring the Ops Agent. There is a small number of metrics that the GA version of the Ops Agent handles differently from the Preview versions of the Ops Agent and the Monitoring agent; see Differences in metric collection.

Cloud Monitoring

The Monitoring dashboards page in the Cloud Console now includes a collection of sample dashboards. The sample dashboards provide support for many common applications. You can preview, install, and then customize these dashboards. For more information, see Installing sample dashboards.

For installation information, see Installing the Ops Agent. For information about migrating from an earlier version, see the transition guide.

June 28, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

The Incidents page now provides an option to permanently close incidents if no data for that incident has arrived in the most recent alerting period. For more information, see Closing incidents.

Cloud Monitoring is launching a new Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page. This tab replaces the Monitoring tab. The enhanced Observability tab provides access to logs and greater visibility into CPU, disk, and network metrics.

June 25, 2021

Cloud Logging

Log entries viewed in JSON format in the Cloud Console are now displayed with the field names in alphabetical order.

June 15, 2021

Cloud Logging

You can now view Monitoring data and link to the resources in the Cloud Console for certain logs, such as Google Kubernetes Engine logs, in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Viewing Monitoring data.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now view Monitoring data for certain logs, such as Google Kubernetes Engine logs, in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Viewing Monitoring data.

June 01, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

A JSON editor has been integrated with the dashboard page. In addition to using the JSON editor to change the contents of the dashboard, you can save the current dashboard definition to a local system, and you can upload a dashboard definition to your Google Cloud project. For more information, see Managing dashboards through the Cloud Console.

May 12, 2021

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Debugger has updated the configuration file naming and keywords that you use to block access to sensitive data. For the updated configuration, see Hiding sensitive data.

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring is introducing metrics scopes. For a Google Cloud project, its metrics scope defines the projects whose metrics the project can view and monitor:

When you create a project, its metrics scope is set to self.
You can modify a project's metrics scope to include other Google Cloud projects, or to include AWS accounts. For more information, see Viewing metrics for multiple projects.
A Google Cloud project can be included in multiple metrics scopes.

For more information about metrics scopes, see Configuring your project for Cloud Monitoring.

The replacement of Cloud Monitoring Workspaces with metrics scopes is complete.

All of your existing Cloud Monitoring Workspaces have been migrated to the new data model.

To access the metrics for a Google Cloud project, select that project in the Console project picker and then access the Monitoring page.
To determine the projects whose metrics the current project can view, see Determining visibility of metrics.
For information about metrics scopes, see Configuring your project for Cloud Monitoring.

May 06, 2021

Cloud Logging

The Logs Explorer Histogram offers new time controls, including zooming and scrolling, to give you more in-depth analysis of your logs data. For details, see Analyzing logs using time controls.

May 05, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

You can now provision and manage the Cloud Logging agent on Windows using Ansible. For more information, refer to the Ansible Role for Cloud Ops documentation.

April 19, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring Workspaces are changing. Over the next few weeks, new capabilities are being deployed:

A Cloud Monitoring Workspace will be created automatically for a Google Cloud project. This change replaces the manual creation process.
The restriction that you can view the metrics for a project from only one Workspace is being eliminated. You'll be able to view the metrics for a project from multiple Workspaces.
Navigation to a Workspace that manages metrics from multiple projects is changing. For information on this change, see Navigating to a Workspace.

Cloud Trace

Cloud Trace announces that the OpenTelemetry library for Python is now generally available. For information about configuring your Python application to use Open Telemetry, see Python and OpenTelemetry.

April 16, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

The Cloud Operations for GKE monitoring dashboard now allows you to manage and display service-level objectives (SLOs) that you define for your applications. For more information, see the Managing SLOs section of the Observing your GKE clusters guide.

April 15, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Operations now offers the ability to provision the Google Cloud Ops Agent via Terraform on Linux and Windows Compute Engine VMs.

Cloud Monitoring

The gcloud commands for managing Agent Policies are now available in beta. For more information, refer to the gcloud documentation for Agent Policies.

January 22, 2021

Cloud Logging

The Logs Explorer now provides a higher degree of contrast that improves readability.

January 14, 2021

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging now lets you share your saved queries with other users of a project. To learn more, go to the Shared queries section on the Building queries page.

December 23, 2020

Cloud Monitoring

Alerting is now Generally Available for Monitoring Query Language (MQL). For more information, see Alerting policies with MQL.

December 16, 2020

Cloud Logging

Logs regionalization is now generally available. You can set the region in which you want to store your logs data. For information about this feature, refer to the Regionalization documentation.

Cloud Monitoring

The dashboard editor that lets you create and edit all dashboard widget types, including gauges, scorecards, and text boxes, is now Generally Available. With this editor, you can quickly configure dashboard widgets by using Basic Mode, you can access all aggregation options with Advanced Mode, and you can use Monitoring Query Language when you select MQL Mode. When you set the dashboard layout to mosaic mode, you can resize and reposition widgets. For more information, see Custom dashboards.

December 08, 2020

Cloud Logging

Enhancements to the VM Details page. A new Event Timeline shows important events as bars on a timeline. Hovering over any event bar displays summary information about the event and provides a link to the Incident Details page for the event.

October 28, 2020

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging

The Ops Agent is now available in Preview. Ops Agent provides a single agent to collect logs and metrics on Compute Engine instances.

Note that the Ops Agent uses new configuration files that are not compatible with the standalone Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents.

Cloud Monitoring

The Ops Agent is now available in Preview. Ops Agent provides a single agent to collect logs and metrics on Compute Engine instances.

Note that the Ops Agent uses new configuration files that are not compatible with the standalone Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents.

October 13, 2020

Cloud Logging

We've renamed the Logs Viewer (Preview) to the Logs Explorer. The Logs Explorer offers a robust set of tools for analyzing your logs data and is now the default viewer for Cloud Logging. To learn more, see Using the Logs Explorer.

The Logs Viewer (Classic) is now called the Legacy Logs Viewer. It will continue to be available and maintained until March 2021, but won't be actively developed further.

October 12, 2020

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging has deprecated the following two logs-based metrics related to exclusions:

logging.googleapis.com/excluded_log_entry_count
logging.googleapis.com/excluded_byte_count

Cloud Logging will stop populating these metrics on October 1, 2021.

October 05, 2020

Cloud Monitoring

Alerting is now available for Monitoring Query Language (MQL). For more information, see Alerting policies with MQL.

September 29, 2020

Cloud Profiler

The 5.x version of the Cloud Monitoring agent for Linux is deprecated. Users are encouraged to upgrade their agents as soon as possible.

The stack-install.sh and the install-monitoring-agent.sh installation scripts for the Cloud Monitoring agent for Linux are deprecated. Refer to the Installing the Cloud Monitoring agent guide for the latest installation procedures.

April 27, 2020

Cloud Logging

The Logs Viewer (Preview) is now GA. To learn more, go to the Logs Viewer (Preview) Overview page.

April 20, 2020

Cloud Profiler

The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent is now generally available. See Profiling Node.js applications for information on configuring your Node.js application.

The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent now supports release 12 of Node.js. See Profiling Node.js applications for information on configuring your Node.js application.

The Cloud Profiler Node.js agent no longer supports release 8 of Node.js.

March 30, 2020

Cloud Monitoring

You can now write time-series data for custom and Prometheus metrics at the rate of 1 data point every 10 seconds. This was previously limited to 1 point every minute.

Data for custom and Prometheus metrics is now retained for 24 months. Previously, the retention period was 6 weeks.

Stackdriver Monitoring is available exclusively in the Cloud Console. For more information, see Monitoring in the GCP Console.

Stackdriver Monitoring agent version 6.0.0 is now available for the following distributions:

CentOS 7
Ubuntu LTS 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu LTS 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
Ubuntu Minimal LTS 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu Minimal LTS 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
Amazon Linux AMI (except Amazon Linux 2.0 AMI)

February 20, 2020

Cloud Trace

Integration of Cloud Trace with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now generally available. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.

February 19, 2020

Cloud Monitoring

Starting in version 6.0.0, the Stackdriver Monitoring agent is available for the Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) distribution.

Cloud Trace

Beta release: Export of Stackdriver Trace data to BigQuery. For more information, see Managing Trace exports.

February 18, 2020

Cloud Monitoring

Stackdriver Monitoring agent version 6.0.0 is now available for the Debian 9 distribution.

February 17, 2020

Cloud Logging

BETA: You can now configure the retention periods of your logs data. For more information, go to Storing logs.

February 14, 2020

Strackdriver Profiler supports Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine for Go, Java, Python, and Node.js services. This feature is now in Beta.

Error Reporting

Error Reporting now infers the service name and version from the logEntry fields named k8s-pod/serving_knative_dev/service and k8s-pod/serving_knative_dev/revision for Knative Serving labels on Cloud Run on Google Kubernetes Engine. This replaces the current default value of gke_instances for service name.

December 11, 2019

September 10, 2019

Cloud Logging

Stackdriver Logging now lets you save your advanced log queries to a Saved Searches library, where they can be managed and shared. Go to Saved searches for details.

When creating a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring is now the default Stackdriver support option. This is a change from prior versions where Stackdriver Logging and Stackdriver Monitoring were the default Stackdriver support option. For more information, see Overview of Stackdriver support for GKE.

Cloud Monitoring

August 08, 2019

Cloud Monitoring

Stackdriver Monitoring has two new uptime check features: SSL certificate validation and regex negation content matching.

July 31, 2019

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Run and Cloud Run on GKE: Stackdriver Debugger can now be used to debug applications on Cloud Run and Cloud Run on GKE that are written in Node.js, Python, and Java.

May 21, 2019

Cloud Logging

Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring is now generally available. Users of the legacy Stackdriver support for monitoring and logging for Google Kubernetes Engine are encouraged to migrate to Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring as soon as possible.

Cloud Monitoring

May 08, 2019

Cloud Profiler

Java 11 is now supported. For more information, see Profiling Java.

Error Reporting

API

Error events written as instances of ReportedErrorEvent generate properly formatted error messages in Stackdriver Logging.

May 02, 2019

Cloud Monitoring

Stackdriver Workspace creation is now a one-step operation.

April 23, 2019

Cloud Logging

The maximum size of a log entry has been increased to 256 KB from 100 KB. For details on logging usage limits, go to Quotas and limits.

Cloud Monitoring

The OpenCensus library is now generally available as the official library for user-defined metrics in Stackdriver Monitoring. The Custom metrics with OpenCensus page includes samples in Go, Java, Node.js, and Python.

April 15, 2019

Cloud Logging

A new Windows version (v1-9) of the Stackdriver Logging agent is now available. The new version saves the agent service logs on disk for easier troubleshooting and supports the config.d configuration extension directory.

March 26, 2019

Cloud Profiler

Stackdriver Profiler is now generally available. Stackdriver Profiler lets you analyze and understand the performance of your Go, Java, Node.js or Python applications. For more information, see About Stackdriver Profiler.

March 18, 2019

Cloud Monitoring

The Uptime Configuration API is now complete and GA. The API, part of the Stackdriver Monitoring API, lets you create, edit, and manage uptime checks.

March 15, 2019

Cloud Logging

Stackdriver agents are subject to an updated deprecation policy. As part of this transition, the next major version of the Stackdriver Monitoring and Stackdriver Logging agents will stop supporting operating systems that are at the end of their lifecycle, as well as some third-party agent plugins.

Cloud Monitoring

March 12, 2019

Cloud Profiler

Python is now supported. For more information, see Profiling Python.

February 28, 2019

Cloud Profiler

The new Color mode filter option lets you color the flame graph frames by package name, by the metric consumption of the function, or by the metric consumption of the function and its children. For more information, see Color mode.

February 22, 2019

Cloud Logging

You now have two choices for the access control model when creating a Cloud Storage bucket: bucket-only (new) and object-level. Select Set object-level and bucket-level permissions as the access control model during bucket creation if you intend to use the bucket as a sink destination. See Errors exporting to Cloud Storage for details.

February 08, 2019

Cloud Monitoring

The Stackdriver Monitoring Agent now supports Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ("Bionic Beaver").

January 22, 2019

Cloud Logging

In the Stackdriver Logging API, log sinks, metrics, and exclusions have two new output-only fields: create time and last update time. See LogSink for an example. If this information isn't available for older resources, these fields aren't present.

January 18, 2019

Error Reporting

Error detection for Python applications has been improved. You might see more newly detected error groups or receive more notifications.

December 18, 2018

Cloud Trace

Trace list now limits HTTP method and HTTP status matches to trace root spans. See Filter traces for more details.

You can now filter traces for analysis reports by the full URI, by the URI prefix, or by using trace filter. See Create a new analysis report for details.

October 31, 2018

Cloud Trace

Cloud Logging

Access Transparency logging is now Generally Available. See Overview of Access Transparency for details.

Cloud Trace

Billing enforcement for Trace has been postponed to November 1, 2018, rather than the previously announced date of September 30, 2018. You can now estimate your bill for your usage of Trace, according to the new pricing and in advance of billing enforcement. See Estimating your bills for details.

August 02, 2018

Cloud Profiler

The new Weight filter lets you select and graph profiles that consume the most of the profile's measured metric. For more information, see Weight filter.

July 25, 2018

Cloud Logging

Audit logs exports to BigQuery now feature a compact format. On March 1, 2019, the older extended format will be removed.

July 24, 2018

Cloud Profiler

The new Compare To option lets you compare profiles that differ by end time, zone, or service version. For more information, see Comparing profiles.

June 29, 2018

Cloud Logging

On July 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT, Stackdriver switches to consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.

Cloud Monitoring

On July 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT, Stackdriver switches to consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.

June 26, 2018

Cloud Logging

You can now immediately disable all logs ingestion. For instructions, see Stopping all logs ingestion.

June 19, 2018

Cloud Logging

Google Cloud Storage logs streaming time has been reduced from 12 hours to 3 hours. For details, see Using Exported Logs.

Cloud Monitoring

If you want to minimize the AWS permissions you give to Stackdriver, then see Minimal AWS Permissions.

June 18, 2018

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging

Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring is released in Beta for Kubernetes 1.10 clusters running in Kubernetes Engine. The previous Stackdriver support is still available for those who do not opt into this Beta release. This release affects Logging by introducing new monitored resource types and new Kubernetes metrics.

Cloud Monitoring

Stackdriver now loads charts much more quickly, especially when the chart contains a long time span.

Cloud Profiler

Stackdriver Profiler is released in Beta.

Cloud Trace

Stackdriver Trace Data Access audit logs are now Generally Available. See Stackdriver Trace Audit Logging for details.

March 26, 2018

Cloud Monitoring

A new option on the Dashboards menu, Public Charts, lets you see a list of all the shared charts. You can also use this page to remove sharing from a chart. The on-chart indicator that the chart is shared has been removed.

March 12, 2018

Cloud Logging

Beginning on June 30, 2018, Stackdriver is switching to consumption-based pricing, including revised quotas. For more information, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.

Logging data retention has been increased to 30 days for all projects.

Cloud Monitoring

Beginning on June 30, 2018, Stackdriver is switching to consumption-based pricing, including revised quotas. For more information, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.

Cloud Trace

Beginning on June 30, 2018, Stackdriver is switching to consumption-based pricing, including revised quotas. For more information, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.

March 08, 2018

Cloud Monitoring

The AlertPolicy and NotificationChannels APIs are now in Beta release. See Alerting policies and Notification channels for more information.

February 27, 2018

December 13, 2017

Cloud Logging

Filtering logs by time range is now available in the Logs Viewer. For more information, see Scroll to a time.

December 04, 2017

Cloud Logging

Logging agent recommendation: VM instances should have at least 1 GB of memory to run the Logging agent.

Google Cloud Platform HTTP(S) load balancing logging now includes logs for rejected requests, such as those due to invalid or expired URL signatures, and aligns httpRequest.requestSize with metrics from the Stackdriver Monitoring API. For more information, see HTTP(S) Load Balancing Logging.

November 29, 2017

Beta release: The Monitoring agent can now export collectd and statsd metrics as Stackdriver custom metrics. For more information, see Custom Metrics from the Agent and the agent's StatsD plugin

October 17, 2017

Cloud Monitoring

Beta release: The Uptime Configuration API and uptime metrics are now available. The API, part of the Stackdriver Monitoring API, lets you create and edit uptime checks. The status of your checks is recorded in the uptime metrics.

October 02, 2017

Cloud Monitoring

Calls to createTimeSeries now fail without writing any data points if the request includes more than one point in the same time series. Formerly, in some cases, one data point would be written in each time series and a status of 500 would be returned by the call.

Cloud Trace

The Trace viewer now shows parent-child relationships between trace spans. You can expand or collapse the parent spans. See Viewing Trace Details for more information.

September 13, 2017

Cloud Monitoring

Object Stores Resources: Google Cloud Storage metrics and Amazon S3 metrics are now separated in the Stackdriver UI into their own service dashboards. The "Object Stores" dashboard is replaced by "Cloud Storage" or "S3", depending on which service you are using.

September 12, 2017

Cloud Logging

Admin Activity audit logs retention has been extended to 400 days for both the Stackdriver Basic and Premium service tiers. For more information, see Audit log retention.

Logging agent update to 1.5.18-1. Allows enabling JSON detection via configuration, fixes a problem with string-valued timestamps, and allows setting the following LogEntry fields: trace, sourceLocation, and operation.

September 08, 2017

Cloud Monitoring

HTTPS(S) Load Balancer metrics are available in Beta release to use in Monitoring. For details, see the GCP loadbalancing metrics and the https_lb_rule monitored resource.

Cloud Interconnect custom dashboards and alert monitoring are available in Beta release. For details, see the GCP interconnect metrics and the interconnect and interconnect_attachment monitored resources.

HTTPS(S) Load Balancer metrics are available in Beta release to use in Monitoring. For details, see the GCP loadbalancing metrics and the https_lb_rule monitored resource.

August 31, 2017

Cloud Logging

Logs-based metrics now support extracting values from log entries to create distribution metrics and to populate user-defined metric labels. This lets you create multiple time series in a single logs-based metric. Also, the latency of logs-based metrics has dropped from approximately 5 minutes to 1 minute, so you can respond more quickly to the metrics. For more information, see Overview of Logs-based metrics.

Exclusion filters let you control which logs are kept in Stackdriver Logging. The Resource Usage page in the Logs Viewer breaks down log volume by resource type. For more information, see Excluding Logs.

Logging agent: The Stackdriver Logging agent package has been updated to version 1.5.17. The agent will now send smaller requests, improving log delivery latency and increasing queries per second, which may affect users with high log volumes. Also, the package's bundled Ruby has been updated to version 2.2.7. If you have configuration snippets or extra gems that depend on older Ruby features, you may have to update them.

Pricing changes: The free per-project allotment of logs is being increased from 5 GB to 50 GB. Beginning December 1, 2017, we will enforce the new limits and begin charging for logs kept in Stackdriver Logging above the limits. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.

August 23, 2017

Cloud Logging

Aggregated Exports: Organizations and folders can now export selected log entries from all of their projects with a single sink created in the organization or folder. For more information, see Aggregated Exports.

Timestamp handling. The following changes to log entry timestamps have been made or are planned. 1. Logging does not modify the user-provided timestamp field, except to set it to the current time if it is omitted. A second field, receivedTimestamp, is set to the time Logging receives the entry. 2. The timestamp field is used to compute the age of log entries and to enforce the log retention period. Prior to the change, the receivedTimestamp field is used for that purpose. 3. Logging discards log entries whose timestamps are more than 24 hours in the future or are further in the past than the log entry's retention period. Prior to the change, future timestamps and very old timestamps are handled in an unpredictable fashion. For more information, see LogEntry and entries.write.

Cloud Monitoring

Dashboard filtering: Custom dashboards and resource list pages now support filtering on groups. Each page that supports filtering now has a filter bar under the header where you specify the group.

August 01, 2017

Cloud Trace

The Trace Viewer now allows you to view associated log entries in line with trace spans and links to VM logs for Google Cloud Load Balancer spans. See the Integrating with Cloud Logging.

July 10, 2017

Cloud Logging

IAM support for Logging now includes custom roles. For more information, see Logging Access Control.

API Migration. Information about the deprecated v1 API is being removed from general documentation. Note: Obsolete link to migration information removed on December 13, 2017. For updated information, see APIs & Reference.

Cloud Monitoring

Heatmaps for distribution metrics: Heatmaps are available in dashboard charts. Select a distribution metric from either the Custom or Logging metric groups and specify Heatmap.

IAM for Stackdriver Monitoring is now complete and GA. New IAM roles include Monitoring Editor and Monitoring Admin, and there is full support for custom roles. For more information, see Monitoring Access Control.

Agent permissions in VM instances: The agent no longer needs the Project Editor IAM role; it only needs the Monitoring Metric Writer role (roles/monitoring.metricWriter). For more information, see Monitoring Access Control.

Windows process metrics now include all processes accessible to the Monitoring agent. See Agent process metrics.

Windows Server 2016 is supported by the current Monitoring agent.

Stacked charts: The order of data streams in stacked charts has been reversed, so that the first stream is on the top and the last stream is on the bottom. This order is consistent with the chart legend and hovercard.

June 05, 2017

Cloud Logging

Exported audit logs in BigQuery: The BigQuery schema for exported audit log entries changed on June 5, 2017. The following audit log components now have shortened field names when they are exported to BigQuery: protoPayload, protoPayload.serviceData, protoPayload.request, and protoPayload.response. This is a breaking change for queries involving these fields. For more information see Audit log field changes.

Apps Script: You can access your Apps Script logs in Logging.

Logs Viewer: You can more easily expand all fields in a log entry.

Cloud Monitoring

Uptime checks have a new overview and detail dashboards. See Uptime Checks.

Singapore region support: Stackdriver now supports the Singapore region, asia-southeast1.

Cloud Trace

Advanced trace filters: The Trace List page and Trace API now allow filtering traces by custom labels, latencies, child spans, and methods in addition to URIs. See Trace Filters.

Error Reporting

IAM roles: Stackdriver Error Reporting IAM roles are now available. See Error Reporting IAM roles.

May 01, 2017

Cloud Logging

Data access logs are now available and are user-configurable. See Configuring Data Access Logs.

Aggregated exports of logs: You can now create log sinks in organizations, billing accounts, and folders. Those sinks can export log entries from all included projects. See Aggregated Exports.

v1 API turndown: writeLogEntries: As a final step in the v1 API turndown, the v1 WriteLogEntries method will be shut down on October 1, 2017. You must migrate any applications that write log entries using the v1 API. You must also upgrade any manually-installed Logging agents in your VM instances. Note: Obsolete link to migration information removed on December 13, 2017. For updated information, see APIs & Reference.

v1 API turndown: sinks and logs-based metrics: Migrate your remaining v1 export sinks and v1 logs-based metrics. If you do not, Logging will migrate them by mid-July, 2017. Note: Obsolete link to migration information removed on December 13, 2017. For updated information, see APIs & Reference.

Cloud Monitoring

New metric and resource types: There are new Cloud Platform metric and resource types, including those for Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud DNS, Cloud Internet of Things, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner, and Stackdriver Logging. Microsoft Windows system and application metrics (iis,mssql, pagefile) are available as Agent metrics and can be used for charting and alerting.

Error Reporting

Error filters: You can now filter errors by custom text in addition to filtering by time, service, and version.

April 02, 2017

Cloud Monitoring

v2beta2 API turndown: The deprecated v2beta1 and v2beta2 APIs will be shut down during August 2017.

April 01, 2017

Cloud Logging

Resource types: Several new resource types are added, including types for Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow, and Cloud Container Engine.

March 31, 2017

Cloud Logging

V1 API turndown: The date of the v1 API turndown has changed. See the release note for May 2017.

Logging agent for Windows: If you install the Logging agent on VM instances running Microsoft Windows, be aware that there are restrictions on the folders used for the installer and the installed agent. For details, Installing on Linux and Windows.

Cloud Monitoring

Time shifting (Beta): You can now compare your current metric data with data from 1 day, 1 week, or 4 weeks ago. See Compare to past in the Advanced options for line chart creation.

Faster chart legends: Charts involving custom and logs-based metrics now have faster legends that include instance names with the metric name where available. You can quickly identify instances and sort the metrics by name.

Faster user interface: Initial page load times have been reduced across the user interface.

Cloud ML: Cloud Machine Learning Engine metrics are available for dashboards and alerting.

Cloud Spanner: Cloud Spanner metrics are available for dashboards and alerting.

Cloud Dataflow: Cloud Dataflow is now integrated with Monitoring. For more details, see the Big Data and Machine Learning Blog.

Monitoring agent: Although the statsd plugin is distributed with the Monitoring agent, there are not yet any instructions for using the plugin with Monitoring.

February 06, 2017

Cloud Logging

Exporting logs from organizations, folders, and billing accounts: The gcloud logging command-line tool now supports creating log sinks to export audit logs from organizations, folders, and billing accounts. This feature also supported in the API.

Viewing multiple logs: Previously in the Logs Viewer, you could view a single log or "all logs" from a single resource type. Now you can select any number of logs within a resource type to view, using the log name dropdown menu.

For example, when viewing App Engine applications, the default is now to display log entries from any of these logs: ngnix.request, stdout, request log, and stderr.

Resuming log streaming: The Logs Viewer now automatically resumes streaming logs when its browser window or tab is selected. You no longer have to restart streaming when returning to the page.

App Engine Flexible Environment: For App Engine Flexible Environment, the Logs Viewer can now display application log entries ("log lines") inside the log entry for the associated service request. This is similar to the functionality in the App Engine Standard Environment.

Deleting logs-based metrics in alerting policies: Attempting to delete a logs-based metric that is used in one or more Stackdriver Monitoring alerting policies now fails with the status FAILED_PRECONDITION. You must remove the metric from the alerting policies or delete the alerting policies prior to deleting the logs-based metric.

Remove daily API quotas: The Logging API no longer includes daily API quotas. The API still enforces short-term (per 100s) quotas on API calls, as displayed in the Stackdriver Logging API dashboard.

Logs retention and source restriction: With the implementation of the Basic and Premium service tiers in December 2016, Stackdriver Logging began enforcing retention and log source restrictions for projects that are in the Stackdriver Basic tier or are not associated with a Stackdriver account. In the Basic tier, log entries are visible for 7 days after they are received, and logs from non-GCP sources, including Amazon Web Services, are rejected.

Cloud Monitoring

Process owner: When sending process metrics, the Stackdriver Monitoring agent now returns a stringified UID if the process owner name is not set. Previously, the agent would not send process owner information, which was then treated by the Monitoring API as malformed input and discarded. Available in stackdriver-agent/5.5.2-359. See Determining the agent version.

Lost input from the Monitoring agent: Malformed data from the Monitoring agent could cause Stackdriver Monitoring to lose well-formed input bundled in the same request. Now, only the malformed input is lost. You do not have to update your agent for this fix.

Selectable uptime check regions: Stackdriver Monitoring now lets you select the geographic region(s) that check your service.

Cloud Debugger

Debugger GA & logs integration: Debugger is generally available. Debugger now integrates a log panel into the debug view and will remember the last selected location. Additionally, you can insert logpoints dynamically without any rebuilds or restarts. The left and right panels in debug view can now be collapsed for additional viewing space for source.

Cloud Logging

Logging is generally available to Google Cloud Platform customers. Individual features that are in Alpha or Beta release are marked as such in the documentation.

Pricing: Stackdriver is now available in Basic and Premium service tiers. All existing and new Stackdriver accounts are entered into a 30-day free trial of the Premium Tier. At the end of the trial period, you could lose some functionality you had during the Beta release unless you upgrade to the Premium Tier. For more details, see Pricing.

API v2: The Stackdriver Logging API v2 is generally available, providing a simplified log format. During a transition period, you can use the same API at either of these two endpoints: https://logging.googleapis.com/v2beta1/... or https://logging.googleapis.com/v2/....

API v1: The Stackdriver Logging API v1 (v1beta3) is deprecated. Users of this API should migrate to the v2 API. The v1 API will be removed from service on March 30, 2017. Note: Obsolete link to migration information removed on December 13, 2017. For updated information, see APIs & Reference.

Cloud Monitoring

GA: Monitoring is generally available to Google Cloud Platform customers. Individual features that are in Alpha or Beta release are marked as such in the documentation.

API v3: The Stackdriver Monitoring API v3 is now generally available.

Monitoring agent: A new version of the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent, v5.5.2-349, is available. Its improvements include an update to collectd 5.5.2, support MongoDB 3.0, agent health metrics, and bundled statsd, tail, and network plugins. For more information, see Installing the Monitoring Agent.

Custom metrics: Custom metric descriptors are created as needed when you write time series data. See Auto-creation of custom metrics.

Charting: You can use log scales in your charts, and you can zoom both the x- and y-axes by clicking-and-dragging.

New metrics: New metrics are now available from Cloud Router, BigQuery, and TaskQueues (pull metrics). See the Metrics List.

Creating alerts: We have introduced a new, more streamlined user interface for creating and editing alerting policies.

Cloud Trace

Analysis Reports: Compare your application's latency profile across time and versions.

Error Reporting

Cloud Functions: Cloud Functions automatically reports unhandled JavaScript exceptions to Stackdriver Error Reporting.

September 11, 2016

Cloud Monitoring

The Google Monitoring API (v3) is now known as the Stackdriver Monitoring API (v3). This change does not affect any code.

The Monitoring v2 API is now deprecated. It is still named the Google Cloud Monitoring API in APIs & services.

September 09, 2016

Cloud Logging

The Google Cloud Logging API is now known as the Stackdriver Logging API. This change does not affect any code.

September 08, 2016

Error Reporting

Cloud Logging

A change to the v2beta1 API might affect some existing code. In the following methods, the parameter projectName has been changed to parent: sinks.create, sinks.list, metrics.list, metrics.create.

The Google Logging API v2beta1 reference documentation now includes code snippets for each method. For example, see entries.list.

June 09, 2016

Cloud Monitoring

The documentation for metrics and custom metrics has been reorganized and extended for the Monitoring API v3. See Metrics, Using Metrics, and Metrics List.

The Stackdriver Monitoring API v3 reference documentation now includes code samples for each method. For example, see metricDescriptors.list. Sample Code will continue to be available on GitHub.

June 06, 2016

Cloud Monitoring

Metrics List is now a comprehensive list of all metrics available in Monitoring, including metrics gathered by the monitoring agent and metrics from Amazon Web Services.

April 27, 2016

Cloud Logging

The user documentation has been reorganized. The documentation landing page and the left-side navigation entries have changed. Existing URLs to individual documentation pages will be redirected if necessary.

Cloud Monitoring

The documentation has been reorganized. The documentation landing page and the left-side navigation entries have changed. Existing URLs to individual documentation pages will be redirected if necessary.

The Quickstart has been simplified. It now includes setting up a virtual machine instance and installing both the monitoring and logging agents.

March 23, 2016

Cloud Logging

Google Cloud Logging is now Stackdriver Logging, part of the Google Stackdriver suite of products. You can now manage logs from Amazon EC2 virtual machine instances alongside your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects. See Logging agent for more details.

Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Monitoring is now Stackdriver Monitoring, part of the Google Stackdriver suite of products.

You can now monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts alongside your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects. Read about Stackdriver Accounts and install the new monitoring agent.

When installing the monitoring agent on an Amazon EC2 VM instance running Microsoft Windows, ignore the following error message if you get it only once after the service is started: "StackdriverAgent is running on an AWS instance but project ID is not set."

March 17, 2016

Cloud Monitoring

The Monitoring API v3 is now available. Users are encouraged to begin upgrading from the Cloud Monitoring API v2. See What's new in the v3 API and look at the new code samples on GitHub.

Beta release: App Engine logs can be exported to Cloud Storage and BigQuery.

January 07, 2015

Cloud Monitoring

First beta release of Google Cloud Monitoring powered by Stackdriver.