Google Cloud's operations suite release notes

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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June 05, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now configure CMEK and a default storage location for individual folders, in addition to organizations. For more information, see Configure default settings for organizations and folders and Configure CMEK for Cloud Logging.

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.5.0 (2023-05-30)

Features

Log Analytics features of the Cloud Logging API (#1416) (3c3de6d)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.15.2 (2023-05-30)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.10.1 (#1354) (b2f1111)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.22 (#1340) (b3b9d5f)

May 31, 2023

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging no longer creates a dedicated service account for each log sink. Instead, Logging reuses an existing service account when one is available for the resource type. Logging creates a service account when none are available. For more information, see Set destination permissions.

May 26, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine: The Observability tab for each of your GKE clusters now includes metrics for ephemeral storage. For more information, see View observability metrics.

May 24, 2023

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Debugger is scheduled for shutdown on May 31, 2023. To help with your debugging needs after this shutdown, we've built an open source CLI tool, Snapshot debugger.

May 22, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now use SQL JOIN and UNION operators in queries on the Log Analytics page. For more information, see Combine data from multiple sources.

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.15.1 (2023-05-12)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.9.0 (#1342) (8b14ae1)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.22 (#1341) (cfc0106)

May 19, 2023

Cloud Logging

Log buckets with Log Analytics enabled now support the use of Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). For information about enabling Log Analytics on log buckets, see Create a bucket or Upgrade a bucket to use Log Analytics.

May 17, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring now provides GA support to prevent alerting policies from sending notifications and creating incidents during specific time periods. For general information, see Snooze notifications and alerts. For information about how to create, view, and modify a snooze, see Create and manage snoozes.

May 15, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now customize the time range of your queries in the Log Analytics page by using the time-range selector. There are several time range options, such as preset times, custom start and end times, and relative time ranges. For more information, see Filter by time.

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.15.0 (2023-05-06)

Features

Log Analytics features of the Cloud Logging API (#1335) (7d43b80)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine to v5.9.3 (#1329) (dfb98f4)

Cloud Monitoring

The new interface for creating charts with Metrics Explorer is GA. For more information, see Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

Version 2.31.0 of the Ops Agent introduces preview support for an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver. You can use this receiver to collect custom metrics and traces from applications written by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. For more information, see Collect OTLP metrics and traces.

Cloud Trace

Version 2.31.0 of the Ops Agent introduces preview support for an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver. You can use this receiver to collect custom traces and metrics from applications written by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. For more information, see Collect OTLP traces.

May 12, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

The new flow for creating uptime checks, which includes usability improvements and offers a seamless way to create uptime checks on your private resources, is now GA. For more information, see Create public uptime checks and Create private uptime checks.

May 02, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine: You can now enable GKE control plane metrics from the Observability tab for your GKE cluster. You can also preview the available charts and metrics before you enable the metrics. For more information, see Configuring collection of control plane metrics.

May 01, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.4.1 (2023-04-28)

Bug Fixes

deps: Bump google-gax to ^3.5.8 (#1412) (8eb6f03)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.9 (2023-04-25)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.8.0 (#1326) (5a56f1b)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.21 (#1319) (5aef8d6)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.21 (#1320) (fc2d065)

April 26, 2023

Cloud Logging

Version 2.31.0 of the Ops Agent introduces built-in support for log rotation. For more information, see Configure log rotation in the Ops Agent.

Cloud Monitoring

Version 2.31.0 of the Ops Agent introduces built-in support for log rotation. For more information, see Configure log rotation in the Ops Agent.

April 25, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

The Observability tab on the VM instances page for Compute Engine has been enhanced. Disk and Network sections with additional charts have been added. The Integrations > Detected section lets you navigate to the dashboards for the third-party integrations, like Apache or NGINX, that you have configured. The page also includes a set of Recommended Alerts for setting up pre-configured alerting policies for CPU, memory, and disk utilization and for host errors.

April 24, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.8 (2023-04-14)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.7.0 (#1318) (973d260)

April 18, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now configure Log Analytics on Cloud Logging buckets and BigQuery linked datasets by using the following Terraform modules:

April 13, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Chart legends in select Cloud Monitoring pages have been updated. The default chart legend is simplified, with the option to expand the legend to view more details about your metrics. For more information, see Configure legends.

April 11, 2023

Cloud Logging

The Logging Query Language now supports a built-in SEARCH function that you can use to find strings in your log data. The SEARCH function is now GA. For more information, see SEARCH function.

April 05, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

A new interface for creating charts with Metrics Explorer is in Public Preview. For more information, see Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

April 03, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.7 (2023-03-28)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.6.0 (#1308) (febcf49)

Cloud Monitoring

The time-range selector in select Cloud Monitoring pages has been updated to support a larger set of time range options, such as preset times, custom start and end times, and relative time ranges.

You can now configure metric-based alerting policies to send repeated notifications for open and acknowledged incidents. For more information, see Send repeated notifications.

March 31, 2023

Cloud Logging

Effective 1 April 2023, storage costs apply to logs data retained longer than 30 days. For pricing details, see Cloud Logging pricing summary. Prior to 1 April 2023, there are no charges for retaining logs longer than 30 days. To review the billable storage for your log buckets, go to the Logs Storage page of the Google Cloud console.

March 30, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

The link for the Managed Prometheus page in Cloud Monitoring now goes to the PromQL tab on the Metrics Explorer page.

March 29, 2023

Cloud Logging

When you create a log view and use the source() function in your filter, the argument to the function is now validated to ensure that it is a single string representing a project, folder, billing account or organization.

March 27, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.6 (2023-03-20)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.5.0 (#1301) (9fa6f05)

The Cloud Logging API now supports the following region:

Doha: me-central1

March 24, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus: You can use the OpenTelemetry Collector to scrape standard Prometheus metrics and report them to Managed Service for Prometheus. For more information, see Get started with the OpenTelemetry Collector.

March 22, 2023

Cloud Logging

Log buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:

asia-northeast1
australia-southeast1
europe-west1
europe-west2
northamerica-northeast1
us-east1
us-west2

For more information, see Supported regions.

March 14, 2023

Cloud Logging

The Logging Query Language now supports a built-in SEARCH function that you can use to find strings in your log data. The SEARCH function is in preview. For more information, see SEARCH function.

March 10, 2023

Cloud Logging

Log-based metrics on log buckets are now generally available (GA). In addition to features available in the preview, the GA release includes the ability to create bucket-level log-based metrics in the Google Cloud console.

Starting with version 2.28.0, the Ops Agent limits the amount of disk space it can use to store buffer chunks. The Ops Agent creates buffer chunks when logging data can't be sent to the Logging API. Without a limit, these chunks might consume all available space, interrupting other services on the VM. When a network outage causes buffer chunks to be written to disk, the Ops Agent now uses a platform-specific amount of disk space to store the chunks.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now have Cloud Monitoring send an email that contains a dashboard URL to people or groups in your organization. For more information, see Share dashboards.

March 09, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now route logs through the Log Router of another Google Cloud project. The logs can then be managed by the other Google Cloud project, which includes log-based metrics, log-based alerts, and other log sinks. For more information, see Route logs to supported destinations.

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Go

Changes for logging/apiv2

1.7.0 (2023-02-27)

Features

logging: Add (*Logger). StandardLoggerFromTemplate() method. (#7261) (533ecbb)
logging: Add REST client (06a54a1)
logging: Rewrite signatures and type in terms of new location (620e6d8)

Bug Fixes

logging: Correctly populate SourceLocation when logging via (*Logger).StandardLogger (#7320) (1a0bd13)
logging: Fix typo in README.md (#7297) (82aa2ee)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.5 (2023-03-02)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.4.0 (#1290) (84d42ae)

March 08, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use the gcloud CLI to configure a snooze, which prevents Cloud Monitoring from sending notifications or creating incidents during specific time periods. You can also configure a snooze by using the Google Cloud Console and the API. For more information see Create and manage snoozes.

March 06, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

You can now view and list incidents on your custom dashboards. For more information, see Display incidents on a dashboard.

March 01, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now use the gcloud CLI to do the following:

Create a log bucket and upgrade that bucket to use Log Analytics.
Upgrade an existing log bucket to use Log Analytics.
Create a linked dataset in BigQuery.

For more information, see Configure log buckets.

Log buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:

us-central1
us-west1
asia-south1

For more information, see Supported regions.

February 27, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.4 (2023-02-21)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.3.0 (#1282) (58ac608)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.20 (#1279) (296cce1)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.20 (#1280) (6363196)

February 13, 2023

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.3 (2023-02-06)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.2.0 (#1269) (e196a80)

February 09, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

The Observability tab is now available for GKE Deployments. To view the tab, navigate to the Kubernetes Engine Workloads page, click on the name of a Deployment, and then click the Observability tab.

February 06, 2023

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.4.0 (2023-01-30)

Features

Added SuggestConversationSummary RPC (#1399) (f176209)

February 03, 2023

Error Reporting

Error Reporting now reports recent application errors for Google Kubernetes Engine workloads of type Deployment or Pod. Go to Kubernetes Engine in the Google Cloud console, and select Workloads. From the overview list, select an entry with type "Deployment" or "Pod" to see details about the workload, including recent application errors.

February 01, 2023

Cloud Logging

To help you manage your costs, the Logs Storage page now displays the billable storage for the current month for each log bucket. For reference, this page also displays each log bucket's ingested bytes for the current and previous months.

January 30, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.2 (2023-01-24)

Bug Fixes

java: Skip fixing poms for special modules ((#1744)#1256) (09eeff0)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.1.2 (#1258) (d4bc663)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.5.0 (2023-01-24)

Features

Add support for Python 3.11 (412d481)

Bug Fixes

Add context manager return types (e2278c1)
Instrumentation entries should not contain user labels (#703) (e05d132)
Require proto-plus 1.22.2 for Python 3.11 (412d481)
Send StructuredLogHandler instrumentation log using an explicit logger (#705) (ac6a2c6)

Documentation

Add documentation for enums (e2278c1)

January 27, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

The Ops Agent version 2.25.0 supports a receiver for Prometheus metrics. By using this receiver, you can collect Prometheus metrics from applications running on Compute Engine instances. For more information, see Collect Prometheus metrics.

January 25, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Now the alerting policy can forecast, or predict, that the threshold will be violated within a configurable time window. These policies are designed to monitor constraint metrics like those that record quota, memory, and storage usage. Forecasting alerts is in Public Preview. For more information, see Forecast condition.

January 20, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use the Observability tab on the Compute Engine VM instances page to see the five virtual machines consuming the most of a resource. For more information, see Troubleshooting VM performance issues.

January 17, 2023

Cloud Logging

You can now save your SQL queries, and you can set custom retention periods on log buckets upgraded to use Log Analytics. For more information, see Save a query.

Log Analytics is now GA. For more information, see Configure log buckets.

January 16, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.1 (2023-01-10)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.1.1 (#1243) (fdf6b7a)
Update dependency org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine to v5.9.2 (#1245) (e73a704)

January 12, 2023

Error Reporting

Errors generated by GKE applications (that is, applications with a MonitoredResource type of k8s_container) now support additional labels for metadata extraction. The values of the following labels will now appear in the resource filter and in various tables and displays on Error Reporting pages in the Google Cloud console:

The app value from your GKE YAML configuration is now used for the primary resource label (also referred to as "service").
The pod_name label of the k8s_container monitored-resource type is now used for the secondary resource label (also referred to as "version").

We continue to support the use of the YAML metadata labels k8s-pod/serving_knative_dev/service and k8s-pod/serving_knative_dev/revision. These labels are prioritized for users already using them over the k8s-pod/app and pod_name labels described in this note. But we encourage users to begin using the new labels.

If you do not set the k8s-pod/app label, GKE application errors continue to use the default service name of gke_instances.

January 10, 2023

Cloud Monitoring

Managed Service for Prometheus: Dashboards for exporter integrations are available and automatically installed when you configure the integration. You can also view static previews of dashboards without configuring the integration. For more information, see the exporter documentation at Set up commonly used exporters.

January 09, 2023

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.14.0 (2022-12-31)

Features

Next release from main branch is 3.14.0 (#1236) (125d94c)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.easymock:easymock to v5.1.0 (#1238) (d9a381a)

Cloud Monitoring

Charts defined by Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) now support dashboard-wide filters and can be configured to support template variables. For more information, see Create a permanent filter.

January 02, 2023

Cloud Logging

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Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.4.0 (2022-12-15)

Features

Add typing to proto.Message based class attributes (9d505f1)

Bug Fixes

Add dict typing for client_options (9d505f1)
deps: Require google-api-core >=1.34.0, >=2.11.0 (9d505f1)
Drop usage of pkg_resources (9d505f1)
Fix timeout default values (9d505f1)

Documentation

samples: Snippetgen handling of repeated enum field (9d505f1)
samples: Snippetgen should call await on the operation coroutine before calling result (9d505f1)

December 26, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.3.3 (2022-12-16)

Bug Fixes

Add CLOUDSDK_PYTHON env var to environment tests (#1385) (8ac3e6b)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.7 (2022-12-19)

Bug Fixes

Install auth plugin on gke environment tests (#1232) (d18bbba)

December 19, 2022

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging now supports the following regions:

US
EU

For more information, see Data regionality for Cloud Logging.

December 14, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use the Observability tab on the Kubernetes Engine Workloads page to see the five workloads consuming the most of a resource. For more information, see View cluster and workload observability metrics.

December 13, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can use the new Map view on the VM Instances dashboard to visualize the health of the resources in your fleet. Using the map, you can group VMs by resource labels, like "instance group" or "zone", and color the VMs by the value of a metric, like CPU utilization, to highlight hotspots and anomalies in your fleet.

December 12, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.6 (2022-12-07)

Bug Fixes

Retrieving logentries pagewise always results in an exception (#1220) (662a439)

3.13.5 (2022-12-06)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.1.0 (#1219) (b54e015)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.3.1 (2022-12-05)

Bug Fixes

Client_info default values (#681) (b74d2a8)

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use the Monitoring API to configure a snooze, which prevents Cloud Monitoring from sending notifications or creating incidents during specific time periods. You can also configure a snooze by using the Google Cloud Console. For information about how to create, view, and modify a snooze, see Create and manage snoozes.

December 07, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

For public and private uptime checks, a new create flow is available in Public Preview. For private uptime checks, the Public Preview flow lets you create the Service Directory service and perform other prerequisite steps by using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Create public uptime checks and Create private uptime checks.

December 06, 2022

Error Reporting

On the Error Reporting page, use the new resource filter to filter error groups by resource type. For more information, see Filter errors.

December 05, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.3.2 (2022-12-02)

Bug Fixes

Add a partner team as approvers for PRs (#1380) (ca1f4fa)

Go

Changes for logging/apiv2

1.6.1 (2022-12-02)

Bug Fixes

logging: downgrade some dependencies (7540152)

1.6.0 (2022-11-29)

Features

logging: start generating proto stubs (0eb700d)

Bug Fixes

logging: Fix stdout log http request format (#7083) (2894e66)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.4 (2022-12-03)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.19 (#1214) (f104203)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.19 (#1215) (7785a7c)

3.13.3 (2022-12-01)

Bug Fixes

Add a partner team as approvers for PRs (#1211) (a69fd5e)
Need a way to disable flushing (#1206) (aa0c176)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.3.0 (2022-11-26)

Features

Add support for custom JSON encoders (#657) (77e621c)
Include context on batch log errors (#650) (d08be9a)
Set partial_success to default to true for batched logs (#649) (e56d3e8)
Support Django asgi middleware (#625) (f52b3aa)

Bug Fixes

deps: Allow protobuf 3.19.5 (#644) (12f3001)
Json fields dictionary has modification side effect (#654) (a62a0d6)

December 01, 2022

Error Reporting

Error Reporting is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) supported service.

November 28, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.2 (2022-11-21)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.18 (#1201) (8b00108)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.18 (#1202) (c884361)

November 21, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.1 (2022-11-16)

Bug Fixes

Fix failing instrumentation test preventing release (#1187) (04bb6c0)
Test failures due to RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED (#1197) (f74b86d)
Wrong order of libraries info in instrumentation (#1196) (c3942ea)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.0.6 (#1190) (01ebe33)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.17 (#1182) (d4f17ab)

November 14, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.3.1 (2022-11-07)

Bug Fixes

Switch instrumentation code to work with NODEJS_DEFAULT_LIBRARY_VERSION only (#1373) (32b22b4)

November 11, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for creating charts and dashboards in Cloud Monitoring is now Generally Available. For more information, see PromQL in Cloud Monitoring.

Cloud Monitoring now provides a GKE Clusters dashboard for enabling Managed Service for Prometheus on clusters in your project. For more information, see Get started with managed collection.

November 08, 2022

Cloud Trace

The Trace scatterplot now indicates traces with error codes as red. For more information, see Finding and viewing traces.

November 07, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now dynamically include your log content in your alert notifications for easier troubleshooting. For more information about extracting log content into labels, see Create a log-based alert (Monitoring API).

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.3.0 (2022-11-04)

Features

Add support for instrumentation version annotations (#1370) (c039022)

10.2.3 (2022-11-03)

Bug Fixes

deps: Use google-gax v3.5.2 (#1367) (8cd3262)

10.2.2 (2022-10-31)

Bug Fixes

Runtime package.json check causes breakage when bundled (#1364) (ec40231)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.13.0 (2022-11-04)

Features

Add support for instrumentation version annotations (#1179) (0931446)
Update release-please.yml with correct path (#1184) (9e75fe4)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.17 (#1181) (1830525)

3.12.1 (2022-11-02)

Bug Fixes

Make partialSuccess to be true by default (#1173) (123960a)

Cloud Monitoring

November 04, 2022

Cloud Logging

The Logs tab available for each cluster on the Kubernetes Engine > Clusters page now includes suggested queries for your logs. For more information about using your GKE logs, see Viewing your GKE logs.

November 03, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect Aerospike logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.22.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Aerospike.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now add table widgets to custom dashboards that let you limit the number of table rows, persiste specific columns, display only those rows with the highest, or lowest values, and that display a visual indicator of the value as compared to the range of possible values. For more information, see Display data in tabular form on a dashboard.

October 31, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.2.1 (2022-10-28)

Bug Fixes

Correct an order of instrumentation entries (#1362) (c6b11e3)

10.2.0 (2022-10-27)

Features

Add support for partialSuccess global configuration (#1359) (178b19f)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.12.0 (2022-10-27)

Features

Add support for batching configuration (#1164) (35be8d1)

3.11.10 (2022-10-26)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.0.5 (#1156) (413fa54)
Update dependency org.easymock:easymock to v5.0.1 (#1159) (df8bfbe)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.16 (#1144) (4836c7e)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.16 (#1154) (a13ef9f)

October 24, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now instrument gRPC applications to use Microservices observability.

Pricing for Microservices observability is the same as Cloud Operations Pricing. There are no separate charges for using Cloud Trace, Cloud Monitoring, or Cloud Logging Microservices observability plugins.

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.11.9 (2022-10-17)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.15 (#1145) (5bd000c)

Cloud Monitoring

You can now instrument gRPC applications to use Microservices observability.

A new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is now available. Version 0.5.0 of managed collection for Kubernetes has been released. Users who deploy managed collection using kubectl should reapply the manifests. Users who deploy the service using gcloud or the GKE UI will be upgraded on a rolling basis over the coming weeks. This release has no impact on users of self-deployed collection.

For details about the changes included, see the release page on GitHub.

Cloud Trace

You can now instrument gRPC applications to use Microservices observability.

October 21, 2022

Cloud Logging

To show or hide log entries similar to a log entry displayed in the Logs Explorer, expand the log entry and use the Similar entries menu.

Cloud Monitoring

The Cloud Monitoring Integrations page now provides access to logs collected by logs-enabled integrations from the Details page for each integration.

October 20, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Logs panels now display log entries on rows with separate columns for severity, the timestamp, and a summary of the log entry. You can click the View log details button to view the JSON-formatted representation of a log entry. For more information, see View logs on a custom dashboard.

October 17, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.1.11 (2022-10-11)

Bug Fixes

Instrumentation performance (#1354) (9f14ea1)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.7.7 (2022-10-13)

Dependencies

Regenerating with new Protobuf (3.7.x) (#1130) (feaf255)

3.11.8 (2022-10-15)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.easymock:easymock to v5 (#1139) (ad33e92)

3.11.7 (2022-10-12)

Bug Fixes

Add safe directory for environment tests (#1131) (a6ff3c6)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.2.5 (2022-10-10)

Bug Fixes

deps: Allow protobuf 3.19.5 (#644) (12f3001)

3.2.5 (2022-10-10)

Bug Fixes

deps: Allow protobuf 3.19.5 (#644) (12f3001)

October 13, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

SLO monitoring: You can now define a set of generic services by using the Service Monitoring API. This change streamlines integration with tools like Terraform. For more information about defining generic services, see Services.

October 10, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.11.6 (2022-10-07)

Bug Fixes

Logging SDK not applying quota limits for project set using quotaProjectId (#1125) (70fc6ee)

3.11.5 (2022-10-03)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.0.4 (#1120) (17a6e26)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.2.4 (2022-10-04)

Bug Fixes

deps: Require protobuf >= 3.20.2 (#633) (b4da4ce)

October 04, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect Oracle Database logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.22.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Oracle Database.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Oracle Database logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.22.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Oracle Database.

October 03, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.11.4 (2022-10-01)

Bug Fixes

Add flush() calls in samples (#1116) (6d3cb5b)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.2.3 (2022-09-30)

Bug Fixes

Mimic the pubsub test to clean up bigquery datasets (#639) (44deb1b)
Nested json with structured log handler (#636) (b840435)
Structured log handler drops reserved fields in json_fields (#634) (4ef38b3)

September 30, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

The set of pre-configured Monitoring dashboards now includes a Microservices gRPC Overview dashboard. If apps in your project emit gRPC metrics, then this dashboard is automatically added to your list of available dashboards.

September 28, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect additional Elasticsearch metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.21.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Elasticsearch.

You can now collect additional PostgreSQL metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.21.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: PostgreSQL.

September 27, 2022

Cloud Logging

Using Log Analytics, you can run SQL queries that analyze your log data to generate useful insights. Log Analytics also let you use BigQuery to query your log data. For more information, see Log Analytics.

September 26, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.11.3 (2022-09-22)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.14 (#1079) (c08c4da)
Update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.14 (#1080) (50c979b)

3.11.2 (2022-09-21)

Dependencies

Update dependency org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine to v5.9.1 (#1075) (d38e9e0)

Cloud Monitoring

You can now use Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) when creating charts and dashboards in Cloud Monitoring. For more information, see PromQL in Cloud Monitoring.

September 20, 2022

Cloud Logging

The Cloud Logging API now supports the following region:

Israel: me-west1.

September 19, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.1.9 (2022-09-09)

Bug Fixes

Google-gax resolution (#1333) (4491646)

10.1.10 (2022-09-14)

Bug Fixes

Preserve default values in x-goog-request-params header (#1337) (87c8d1f)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.11.1 (2022-09-15)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.0.3 (#1067) (6d36ffc)

3.11.0 (2022-09-14)

Features

Apply Google style recommendations (#1057) (bfef3d1)

Bug Fixes

Fix a couple linter issues on my stderr update (#1061) (fa1a18f)

September 15, 2022

Cloud Logging

Support for adding custom indexed LogEntry fields to your Cloud Logging buckets is now Generally Available. These indexes make querying your logs data faster.

September 13, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now configure public uptime checks to send ICMP pings as part of the check. The results of the pings are sent to Cloud Logging to help you troubleshoot failed checks. For more information, see Use ICMP pings.

September 12, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.8 (2022-09-09)

Dependencies

Update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3.0.2 (#1060) (b5dea1b)

3.10.7 (2022-09-07)

Bug Fixes

Apply Google Java Code Clarity suggestions (#1044) (79e9d8d)

September 08, 2022

Cloud Logging

Cloud Audit Logging no longer redacts the principal email associated with service accounts in audit logs. For more information, see Caller identities in audit logs.

September 05, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Node.js

Changes for @google-cloud/logging

10.1.8 (2022-09-03)

Bug Fixes

Correction for timestamp and instrumentation record severity fields format (#1328) (057431b)

10.1.7 (2022-09-02)

Bug Fixes

MaxRetries parameter is ignored (#1326) (caed0af)

10.1.6 (2022-08-31)

Bug Fixes

use _gaxModule when accessing gax for bundling (#1322) (9cd207d)

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.6 (2022-08-29)

Dependencies

use error_prone_annotation via shared deps (#1049) (0998b9b)

August 30, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect additional MongoDB metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.19.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: MongoDB.

August 29, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.5 (2022-08-25)

Bug Fixes

resource detection for 2nd gen of Cloud Functions works incorrectly (#1045) (dda1d0a)

Cloud Monitoring

You can now manage Monitoring-specific roles by using the Cloud Monitoring pages in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Grant access to Cloud Monitoring.

August 25, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

There are new filtering capabilities for the projects.uptimeCheckConfig.list API method. For more information, see UptimeCheckConfig.

August 22, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.4 (2022-08-19)

Dependencies

update dependency com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations to v2.15.0 (#1037) (b2731c7)

3.10.3 (2022-08-19)

Bug Fixes

Add explicit RunWith annotations on all tests (#1004) (342157f)
Apply fixes from Google error-prone (#1010) (2d57d78)
Correct the JSON time field name (#1020) (8c9a218)
Fix flakiness in JSON test (#1006) (cafafe4)
Fix some typos (#1008) (5666ee0)
Make LoggingHandler.logEntryFor extensible (#1021) (79baac6)
Replace Date with LocalDateTime (#1012) (765dd89)
Supress unchecked conversion warnings (#1014) (a93ee23)
Update the stub to avoid the deprecated *Map method (#1002) (49bf5b4)

Dependencies

update dependency org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine to v5.9.0 (#1016) (e5f0b55)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.2.2 (2022-08-12)

Bug Fixes

deps: allow protobuf < 5.0.0 (#600) (8495dac)
deps: require proto-plus >= 1.22.0 (8495dac)

August 17, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring is introducing pricing for uptime checks, effective October 1, 2022. For more information, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary.

August 15, 2022

Cloud Logging

Bucket-level log-based metrics are now available in Preview. You can now create log-based metrics that are computed from the logs routed to a specific log bucket. For more information, see Log-based metrics on log buckets.

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.2 (2022-08-08)

Dependencies

update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v3 (#1018) (17efd5c)
update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.13 (#992) (3856e4f)
update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.13 (#993) (a94e428)

Cloud Monitoring

The GKE Clusters List page now includes a new Observability tab that displays Monitoring data. This tab shows infrastructure health metric trends such as CPU, memory, container restarts and control-plane metrics. It also provides visibility into ingestion into Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus and Cloud Logging. For more information, see View observability metrics.

August 11, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now prevent Cloud Monitoring from sending notifications or creating incidents during specific time periods. For general information, see Snooze notifications and alerts. For information about how to create, view, and modify a snooze, see Create and manage snoozes.

July 26, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect Couchbase logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.2. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Couchbase.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Aerospike metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.2. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Aerospike.

You can now collect Couchbase logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.2. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Couchbase.

You can now collect Vault metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.2. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Vault.

July 19, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

A new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is now available. Version 0.4.3-gke-0 of managed collection for Kubernetes has been released. Users who deploy managed collection using kubectl should reapply the manifests. Users who deploy the service using gcloud or the GKE UI will be upgraded on a rolling basis over the coming weeks. This release has no impact on users of self-deployed collection.

For details about the changes included, see the release page on GitHub.

July 18, 2022

Cloud Logging

A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.

Java

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.1 (2022-07-13)

Bug Fixes

enable longpaths support for windows test (#1485 )(#995) (b2f68cb)

Dependencies

update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:native-maven-plugin to v0.9.12 (#977) (71dc1ee)

Python

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.2.1 (2022-07-13)

Bug Fixes

deps: require google-api-core>=1.32.0,>=2.8.0 (#585) (de35eab)

3.2.0 (2022-07-11)

Features

add audience parameter (a2eed8c)
Add support for library instrumentation (#551) (8ba0023)

Bug Fixes

deps: require google-api-core >= 2.8.0 (#575) (a2eed8c)
deps: require google-cloud-core >= 2.0.0 (a2eed8c)
require python 3.7+ (#580) (0b3eb52)

You can now search your correlated log entries in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Correlate log entries.

July 15, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect SAP HANA logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: SAP HANA.

You can now collect Vault logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Vault.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Flink metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Flink.

You can now collect SAP HANA logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: SAP HANA.

July 14, 2022

Cloud Logging

Changes for google-cloud-logging

3.10.0 (2022-06-25)

Features

Add support for library instrumentation (#979) (2749974)

Documentation

sample: update README for native image sample (#974) (1512487)

Dependencies

update dependency com.google.cloud:google-cloud-shared-dependencies to v2.13.0 (#980) (18acf1f)
update dependency org.graalvm.buildtools:junit-platform-native to v0.9.12 (#976) (01d3213)

Cloud Monitoring

You can now configure an uptime check to validate a specific JSONpath. For more information, see Validate response data.

A new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is now available. Version 0.4.1 of managed collection has been released, along with v2.35.0-gmp.2 of the managed-service binary that v0.4.1 depends on (container image: gke.gcr.io/prometheus-engine/prometheus:v2.35.0-gmp.2-gke.0). For details about the changes included, see the release page on GitHub.

You can now collect Varnish logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with versions 2.16.0 (logs) and 2.15.0 (metrics). For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Varnish.

May 20, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now see more log entries in the Logs Explorer as a result of several style changes.

May 16, 2022

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Debugger is deprecated and is scheduled for shutdown on May 31 2023. For an alternative, use the open source CLI tool, Snapshot Debugger.

Cloud Monitoring

The pricing for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus has been reduced by 25-50%, depending on volume and usage. Existing pricing tiers have been reduced by 25%, and a new high-volume tier has been added at 50% of the current cost. For pricing details, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary, and for a set of examples, see Pricing examples based on samples ingested.

May 11, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Private uptime checks are now generally available. Private uptime checks enable HTTP requests into a customer Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network while enforcing Identity and Access Management (IAM) restrictions and VPC Service Controls perimeters. Private uptime checks can send requests over the private network to resources like a virtual machine (VM) or an L4 internal load balancer (ILB).

For more information, see Create private uptime checks.

May 06, 2022

March 28, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

User-defined labels are now included in PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, Webhooks, and email notifications, and you can also view these labels on the details pages of alerting policies and incidents. To learn how you can create user-defined labels that contain severity information and attach those labels to alerting policies or incidents, see Add severity levels to an alerting policy.

Error Reporting

Error Reporting now supports Webhooks and Slack as notification channels. For more information, see Create notification channel.

March 25, 2022

Cloud Logging

Cloud Logging now supports organization policies that can enforce CMEK protection. For information, see CMEK organization policies.

March 21, 2022

Cloud Logging

Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for Logs Storage are now Generally Available (GA). CMEK lets you create, control, and manage encryption keys to meet your data compliance needs. For details, see Manage the keys that protect Logging storage data .

March 11, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect RabbitMQ logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.12.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: RabbitMQ.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect WildFly metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.12.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: WildFly.

March 04, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now organize your dashboard widgets into collapsible groups. For more information, see Organize dashboard widgets.

February 28, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

GA: Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus, Google Cloud's fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, is now generally available. You can use the managed service anywhere that you use standard Prometheus today. The collector retains all expected Prometheus functionality, such as local storage and rule evaluation.

Managed Service for Prometheus also offers managed data collection in Kubernetes environments, reducing the complexity of deploying, scaling, sharding, configuring, and maintaining the collectors. For more information, see Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.

February 22, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect Apache CouchDB logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: CouchDB.

You can now collect Apache Hadoop logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Hadoop.

You can now collect Apache HBase logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: HBase.

You can now collect Apache ZooKeeper logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: ZooKeeper.

You can now collect WildFly logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: WildFly.

Cloud Monitoring

Metrics Explorer and charts on dashboards have a new metric selection interface. For more information, see Select metrics when using Metrics Explorer.

You can now collect Apache ActiveMQ metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: ActiveMQ.

You can now collect Apache Hadoop metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Hadoop.

You can now collect Apache HBase metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: HBase.

You can now collect MongoDB metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: MongoDB.

You can now collect RabbitMQ metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: RabbitMQ.

February 17, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

You can now configure how missing data is treated in alerting policies. Currently, if data stops arriving, the alerting policy repeats the previous measurement, so open incidents stay open. You can now treat missing data as violating the condition so an active condition stays active, or treat it as non-violating so that an active condition closes. For more information, see Partial metric data.

The install-monitoring-agent.sh installation script for the Cloud Monitoring agent for Linux has been decommissioned. See the Installing the Cloud Monitoring agent guide for the latest installation procedures.

February 14, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now configure default storage regions and disabled _Default sinks for your Google Cloud organizations and all of their new projects and folders. For details, see Configure default resource settings for Logging.

You can now collect Apache Solr metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Solr.

You can now collect Apache Kafka metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Kafka.

You can now collect MongoDB logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Collect logs from third-party applications: MongoDB.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Apache Solr metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Solr.

You can now collect Apache Kafka metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Kafka.

You can now collect Apache CouchDB metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: CouchDB.

You can now collect Apache ZooKeeper metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: ZooKeeper.

You can now collect Elasticsearch metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Elasticsearch.

February 10, 2022

Cloud Logging

Your regional preferences, including date and time formatting, are now supported in the Logs Explorer.

February 09, 2022

Cloud Logging

Compute Engine resource names, alongside their corresponding resource IDs, are now supported in the Logs Explorer. For details, see View Compute Engine logs.

February 08, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring

Private uptime checks are now available in Preview. Private uptime checks enable HTTP requests into a customer Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network while enforcing Identity and Access Management (IAM) restrictions and VPC Service Controls perimeters. Private uptime checks can send requests over the private network to resources like a virtual machine (VM) or an L4 internal load balancer (ILB).

For more information, see Create private uptime checks.

January 18, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

When you click on an entry in the Instances table on the Monitoring VM Instances dashboard, a sliding panel now appears with the instance details, replacing the VM Instance Details page.

January 11, 2022

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring now supports configuring HTTP POST uptime checks in the UI. For more information, see Managing uptime checks.

January 07, 2022

Cloud Logging

You can now collect MariaDB metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.8.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: MariaDB.

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect MySQL metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.8.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: MySQL.

You can now collect Memcached metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.8.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Memcached.

Cloud Monitoring

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

Terraform now supports use of the metrics scope API. For sample code, see google_monitoring_monitored_project.

You can now save a copy of a chart from the Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page to one of your custom dashboards. To save a copy of the chart, select Add to Custom Dashboard from the More Options menu on the chart. You then select a new or existing custom dashboard, and have the option of renaming the new copy of the chart.

November 05, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Apache Web Server metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.7.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Apache Web Server.

You can now collect Redis metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.7.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Redis.

November 04, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

Data from closed incidents is now retained for 13 months instead of 90 days, so you can see patterns over longer periods of time and investigate them. For information about investigating incidents, see Incidents.

You can now create an alerting policy from the alert chart dialog on a custom dashboard, and you can create an alerting policy by converting a chart on custom dashboard to an alert chart. For more information, see Alert charts.

November 01, 2021

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect Cassandra metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.6.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Cassandra.

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 Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud 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