This page provides a consolidated list of the release notes for all of the products in Google Cloud Observability. 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:
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September 22, 2025
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging has removed the quota for write requests per minute, which has been replaced by volume-based regional quotas. We've also removed the references to August dates for the removal of the old quota from the public documentation. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.
September 15, 2025
Cloud LoggingSeptember 08, 2025
Cloud LoggingAugust 27, 2025
Cloud TraceYou can now create and manage the trace scope programmatically. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:
August 25, 2025
Cloud LoggingAugust 11, 2025
Cloud LoggingAugust 04, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now build queries without manually writing SQL in the Log Analytics page by using the query builder. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Build and run a SQL query.
July 17, 2025
Cloud TraceApplication-specific resource attributes are attached to your trace data when your App Hub applications use supported Google Cloud resources, or when you instrument an application with OpenTelemetry and use the Google Cloud Telemetry endpoint. You can use the Trace Explorer to filter by your application, your service, or your workload. To learn more, see the following:
July 14, 2025
Cloud LoggingJune 30, 2025
Cloud LoggingJune 13, 2025
Cloud TraceThe Analysis reports page has been removed. To analyze your trace data, use the Trace explorer page. You can use filters and the time-range selector to view and analyze historical data.
June 09, 2025
Cloud LoggingJune 06, 2025
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging begins enforcement of the new volume-based regional quotas. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.
June 04, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now cancel a running query in the Logs Explorer by clicking the Stop query button.
May 29, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now configure the observability scope or set the default log scope by using the Google Cloud CLI. You must use version 254.0 or higher. For more information, see Configure observability scopes and Set the default log scope.
May 27, 2025
Cloud TraceLearn how to instrument your generative AI applications by using OpenTelemetry and the LangGraph framework to collect information about the actions taken by your AI agent. You can view generative AI events by using the Trace Explorer:
May 26, 2025
Cloud LoggingMay 12, 2025
Cloud LoggingMay 08, 2025
Cloud LoggingLog Analytics can now automatically infer fields of a column when the data type is JSON. You can also view how often these inferred fields appear in your data.
April 28, 2025
Cloud LoggingApril 21, 2025
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging adds support for the europe-north2 region. For a complete list of supported regions, see Supported regions.
Python
3.12.0 (2025-04-10)
Features
- Add REST Interceptors which support reading metadata (681bcc5)
- Add support for opt-in debug logging (681bcc5)
- Added flushes/close functionality to logging handlers (#917) (d179304)
Bug Fixes
- Allow protobuf 6.x (#977) (6757890)
- deps: Require google-cloud-audit-log >= 0.3.1 (#979) (1cc00ec)
- Fix typing issue with gRPC metadata when key ends in -bin (681bcc5)
Documentation
April 17, 2025
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Explorer, you can now view the most frequently occurring fields and values in the JSON payload of your logs. For more information, see the Fields pane documentation.
April 04, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can include pipe syntax in the SQL queries you run on the Log Analytics page. Pipe syntax supports a linear query structure designed to make your queries easier to read, write, and maintain. The pipe syntax feature is generally available (GA).
March 25, 2025
Cloud TraceTo send trace data to your Google Cloud project, we recommend that you use the new Telemetry API, which implements the OpenTelemetry OTLP API and provides compatibility and support for the open source ecosystem. The limits for the Telemetry API are often more generous than those for the proprietary Cloud Trace API, which you can continue to use. The Telemetry API supports VPC Service Controls. For more information about the Telemetry API, see the following documents:
March 24, 2025
Cloud LoggingMarch 13, 2025
Cloud LoggingApp Hub application labels are now attached to your log entries. The Log Fields pane of the Logs Explorer now includes facets for application, service, and workload labels. For more information, see Log Fields pane.
March 12, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now use the Observability API to set the default log scope. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:
March 11, 2025
Cloud LoggingThe API to create and manage Log Scopes is now Generally Available (GA). You can create and manage log scopes by using the Cloud Console, the Google Cloud CLI, and Terraform. For more information, see Create and manage log scopes.
March 03, 2025
Cloud LoggingFebruary 18, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now use custom constraints with Organization Policy to provide more granular control over your Cloud Logging resources. For more information, see Use custom organization policies.
February 17, 2025
Cloud LoggingFebruary 06, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now create and manage your log views by using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Configure log views on a log bucket.
February 03, 2025
Cloud LoggingJanuary 24, 2025
Cloud TraceThe Trace Explorer page in the Google Cloud console has been refreshed. The new page aggregates and displays information about spans using visualizations like heatmaps. You can use menus to apply filters and to group traces by span and service name. You can also explore individual traces and share traces. For more information, see the following documents:
Introducing trace scopes. Trace scopes are persistent, project-level resources that the Trace Explorer page uses to determine which projects to search for trace data. You can create, edit, and delete trace scopes. You can also set one trace scope as the default trace scope, which determines the projects that the Trace Explorer searches when the page is opened.
For more information, see the following documents:
January 21, 2025
Cloud LoggingOn April 22, 2025, Cloud Logging will replace the single, global quota for the number of calls to write log entries with a set of volume-based regional quotas. For more information, see Logging API quotas and limits.
January 20, 2025
Cloud LoggingJanuary 13, 2025
Cloud LoggingYou can now create analytics views, which let you transform your log data into a custom format. You can then use SQL to query your analytics views. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see the following documents:
January 06, 2025
Cloud LoggingGo
1.13.0 (2025-01-02)
Features
Bug Fixes
- logging: Update golang.org/x/net to v0.33.0 (e9b0b69)
- logging: Update google.golang.org/api to v0.203.0 (8bb87d5)
- logging: WARNING: On approximately Dec 1, 2024, an update to Protobuf will change service registration function signatures to use an interface instead of a concrete type in generated .pb.go files. This change is expected to affect very few if any users of this client library. For more information, see https://togithub.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/11020. (8bb87d5)
December 18, 2024
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging adds support for the northamerica-south1 region. For a complete list of supported regions, see Supported regions.
You can now create custom roles that let you create and manage Log Scopes. Log Scopes are in Public Preview. For more information, see Create and manage log scopes: Before you begin.
December 13, 2024
Cloud LoggingReporting of the "pending" status of the Ops Agent on the Cloud Monitoring VM Instances dashboard has been refined to include additional states. For more information, see Use VM Instances dashboard.
December 06, 2024
Cloud LoggingEditing Log Analytics charts that are saved to a dashboard directly in the Dashboards page is now generally available (GA).
November 08, 2024
Cloud LoggingAudit Logging now populates the status.details field in the audit log with the google.rpc.ErrorInfo and google.rpc.Help proto payload types in cases where an API returns an error status and that status includes one of those types in the details field.
October 29, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now create and manage log scopes by using the Google Cloud CLI, in addition to using the Cloud Console and Terraform. Log scopes are in Public Preview. For more information, see
October 28, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now use tags to annotate your log buckets and use the tags to manage access to the log buckets. For more information, see Manage log buckets by using tags.
October 24, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now create alerting policies that monitor the results of your SQL queries. For more information about SQL-based alerting policies, see the following documents:
October 09, 2024
Cloud LoggingOps Agent release 2.51.0 adds support for Compute Engine Arm VMs that are running Rocky Linux 8.
October 07, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now include pipe syntax in the SQL queries you run on the Log Analytics page. For more information, see the BigQuery documentation about pipe syntax.
October 02, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now use Terraform commands to a create or update a log scope. For more information, see Create a log scope.
September 30, 2024
Cloud LoggingThe layout of the Logs Explorer page has been changed. For more information, see View logs by using the Logs Explorer.
The pricing for vended network logs has changed. For more information see the following:
September 19, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now query your log data from the Log Analytics page by using reserved BigQuery slots. For more information, see Query and view logs in Log Analytics.
September 16, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now create and manage your log scopes by using the Logging API in addition to using the Cloud Console. This feature is in public preview. For more information, see Create and manage log scopes.
There is a new Cloud Observability Overview page in the Google Cloud Console. The new page, which you can customize, introduces the Cloud Observability products, and provides information about your logs, dashboards, incidents, and more. This page can help you detect issues in your resources, view relevant events, and view signals that matter to you.
August 16, 2024
Error ReportingError Reporting can now analyze log entries that have been routed to a log bucket in a non-global region, provided the log sink is in the same project as the log bucket.
August 13, 2024
Cloud LoggingIntroducing log scopes. Log scopes are persistent, project-level resources that list a set of resources to be searched for log entries. For example, you might configure a log scope to contain multiple projects and several log views. If you select your log scope when using the Logs Explorer, it displays the log entries that originate in the specified projects and those in the specified log views.
You can create, edit, and delete log scopes. You can also set one log scope as the default log scope, which determines the resources that the Logs Explorer searches for log entries.
For more information, see Create and manage log scopes.
July 19, 2024
Cloud LoggingThe permissions required to use saved and recent queries have changed. You can also define a location in your default resource settings where saved and recent queries are saved. This location must align with your organization policy.
July 08, 2024
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in all regions supported by Cloud Logging can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics. For more information, see Supported regions.
July 03, 2024
Cloud LoggingAgent-installation policies for the Ops Agent are now GA. For more information, see Overview of agent policies for the Ops Agent.
You can now view the estimated number of byte processed along with the validation status of your SQL query when running queries in Log Analytics. You can use this information to understand the relative volume of data that your SQL query will scan.
June 26, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now analyze your billable log volume when using Log Analytics. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Analyze log volume with Log Analytics.
June 25, 2024
Cloud LoggingOps Agent version 2.48.0 introduces support for Compute Engine VMs that are running Deep Learning VM Images based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). For more information, see Operating systems.
June 24, 2024
Cloud LoggingGauges and scorecards are now available to visualize the results of your SQL queries. For more information, see Chart query results with Log Analytics.
June 13, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now use Terraform commands to attach an IAM role binding to a log view that grants a principal access to the log view. For more information about log views and about controlling access to log views, see Configure log views on a log bucket.
May 29, 2024
Cloud LoggingOps Agent version 2.47.0 introduces support for Compute Engine VMs that are running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat). For more information, see Operating systems.
May 28, 2024
Cloud TraceYou can now search a trace for keywords. For more information, see Search a trace.
Announcing new Open Telemetry samples that show how to instrument your Python and Node.js applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces:
For general instrumentation information and recommendations, and for links to other samples, see:
May 15, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now attach an IAM role binding to a log view that grants a principal access to the log view. For more information about log views and about controlling access to log views, see Configure log views on a log bucket.
April 03, 2024
Cloud LoggingThe Logging query language now supports the cast and regexp_extract functions. For more information, see the Logging query language documentation.
March 28, 2024
Cloud LoggingPie charts are now available for visualizing data in the Log Analytics page. For more information, see Change chart type.
March 26, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now configure your aggregated sink to be intercepting, which prevents logs from being passed through the Log Router of child resources. For more information, see Collate and route organization-level logs to supported destinations.
Duet AI in Google Cloud is now Gemini for Google Cloud. See our blog post for more information.
March 11, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now use SQL JOIN and UNION operators on the Log Analytics page to combine tables in multiple Google Cloud projects.
Error Reporting can now analyze logs routed by project sinks to different projects than the source project. For more information, see Route logs to supported destinations.
March 07, 2024
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the africa-south1 region can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics. For more information, see Supported regions.
February 20, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now configure and save a Log Analytics chart directly in Monitoring. For more information, see Add charts generated from a Log Analytics query.
For information and recommendations about how to instrument your applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces, see the following documents:
For information and recommendations about how to instrument your applications to collect metrics, logs, and traces, see the following documents:
February 13, 2024
Cloud LoggingCopying log entries is now generally available (GA).
February 12, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now display Log Analytics query results as a table in your Monitoring dashboards by selecting Table as the widget type.
February 08, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now create log buckets in the africa-south1 region. For a complete list of supported regions, see
Supported regions.
February 07, 2024
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:
- europe-west10
For more information, see Supported regions.
January 31, 2024
Cloud LoggingFixed a bug that caused the audit log associated with an API that performs both Data Access and Admin Activity operations to be classified as a Data Access log. These logs are now always classified as Admin Activity audit logs.
January 16, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now edit Log Analytics charts that are saved to a dashboard directly in the Dashboards page. For more information, see Edit a chart saved to a custom dashboard.
Announcing a common navigation pane in the Cloud console for Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting. When you are troubleshooting an issue, the new navigation pane simplifies accessing the pages you need to explore different types of telemetry:
- The Explore section list the pages to view and analyze telemetry data.
- The Detect section lists the pages you use to ensure that you are notified when errors occur.
- The Configure section lists configuration and management pages.
You can continue to use the search bar to locate pages in the Cloud console and to find documentation.
Announcing a common navigation pane in the Google Cloud console for Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting. When you are troubleshooting an issue, the new navigation pane simplifies accessing the pages you need to explore different types of telemetry:
- The Explore section list the pages to view and analyze telemetry data.
- The Detect section lists the pages you use to ensure that you are notified when errors occur.
- The Configure section lists configuration and management pages.
You can continue to use the search bar to locate pages in the Google Cloud console and to find documentation.
Announcing a common navigation pane in the Cloud console for Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting. When you are troubleshooting an issue, the new navigation pane simplifies accessing the pages you need to explore different types of telemetry:
- The Explore section list the pages to view and analyze telemetry data.
- The Detect section lists the pages you use to ensure that you are notified when errors occur.
- The Configure section lists configuration and management pages.
You can continue to use the search bar to locate pages in the Cloud console and to find documentation.
January 08, 2024
Cloud LoggingYou can now go to the Log Analytics page from the Logs Explorer page by clicking the Analyze results button, which automatically translates the Logging query language query into a SQL query. For more information, see Analyze results.
December 20, 2023
Error ReportingThe Error Reporting API is now generally available. For more information about the API, see Overview.
December 13, 2023
Cloud LoggingCharting in the Log Analytics page is now generally available (GA). In addition to features available in the preview, the GA release includes the ability to select none as an aggregation function on a chart.
December 05, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now query for a specific error group in the Logs Explorer and Log Analytics pages by using the error group ID. For more information, see Find error group details for a log entry.
December 01, 2023
Cloud LoggingOps Agent version 2.44.0 introduces the following features:
- Support for Compute Engine VMs that are running Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur). For more information, see Operating systems.
- Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs that are running Debian 12 (Bookworm). For more information, see Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs.
- An option to prevent the agent from collecting self logs and sending them to Cloud Logging. For more information, see Collection of self logs.
November 29, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now specify an inclusion filter or exclusion filter that is applied to the _Default sinks of new resources. For more information, see Configure default filter of _Default sinks.
November 10, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now load saved queries in the Log Analytics page by using the Load button. The Load button lets you edit the query in the Query pane before running the query.
November 06, 2023
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:
- me-central2
For more information, see Supported regions.
November 02, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now set a custom time interval for charts in the Log Analytics page. The custom time interval can be specified in minutes, hours, or days.
November 01, 2023
Cloud LoggingOctober 24, 2023
Cloud LoggingOps Agent version 2.43.0 introduces support for Compute Engine Arm VMs that are running SLES 15 and OpenSUSE Leap 15. For more information, see Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs.
October 17, 2023
Error ReportingYou can now view error groups on your custom dashboards. This feature is GA. For information when using the Cloud Console, see Display logs and errors on a custom dashboard. For information about using the API, see Dashboard with an ErrorReportingPanel widget.
October 16, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now create log buckets in the us-west8 region. For a complete list of supported regions, see Supported regions.
October 12, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now configure the format of the timestamp in your query results in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Logs Explorer overview: Configure the Time column.
October 09, 2023
Cloud LoggingWhen you install the Ops Agent on a Compute Engine VM by using the Cloud Monitoring VM Instances dashboard or the Observability tab on a Compute Engine VM details page, the agent is now installed with an Ops Agent OS policy. This installation method replaces the prior set of manual steps. For more information, see Installing the agent by using the Google Cloud console.
October 05, 2023
Cloud TraceYou can now show logs and events as inline messages when exploring a trace. For more information, see Find and explore traces.
September 29, 2023
Cloud LoggingOps Agent versions 2.39.0 and 2.40.0 crash if you use them on Compute Engine VMs with attached GPUs. Use Ops Agent version 2.38.0, or versions 2.41.0 and newer, on VMs with attached GPUs.
September 18, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now save charts generated from a Log Analytics SQL query to a custom dashboard. For more information, see Save a chart to a custom dashboard.
You can now customize the Logs Dashboard page by using custom dashboards. For more information, see Visualize log severity and error metrics.
You can now use the Log fields pane of the Logs Explorer to filter your Kubernetes Container logs by their service name. The service name is extracted from the value of the pod_name label. For more information, see
Logs fields pane.
September 12, 2023
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:
- us-east5
- us-south1
- me-central1
- europe-west12
For more information, see Supported regions.
September 11, 2023
Error ReportingError Reporting now supports Cloud Run Jobs as a monitored resource type. For more information, see Supported monitored resources.
September 05, 2023
Error ReportingTroubleshooting errors with Duet AI assistance is now available in Preview.
August 29, 2023
Cloud LoggingSummarizing log entries with Duet AI assistance is now available in Preview.
August 21, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now view your query results as a chart in the Log Analytics page. For more information, see Chart query results with Log Analytics.
Identity and Access Management (IAM) deny policies can now include Cloud Logging permissions. For a list of Cloud Logging permissions that are supported by deny policies, see Permissions supported in deny policies.
August 16, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe behavior of simple text searches as changed. To improve the performance, the Search function is automatically invoked when you don't wrap the search terms in double quotes.
August 14, 2023
Cloud LoggingVersion 2.37.0 of the Ops Agent introduces runtime health checks for errors in the configuration of logging pipelines and in parsing logs. These errors are reported to Cloud Logging. For more information, see Agent health checks.
Version 2.37.0 of the Ops Agent introduces GA 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 Use the Ops Agent and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).
Error Reporting now reports recent application errors for Google Kubernetes Engine services and clusters on a new App Errors tab.
- To view service errors, go to Kubernetes Engine in the Google Cloud console and select Services & Ingress, then select a specific service and click the App Errors tab.
- To view cluster errors, go to Kubernetes Engine in the Google Cloud console and select Clusters, then select a specific cluster and click the App Errors tab.
August 10, 2023
Error ReportingIn the Error Reporting page's resource filter, you can now filter GKE resources by location, cluster, namespace, and container or pod. For more information, see Filter errors.
August 07, 2023
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now supports the following regions:
- europe-west10
- europe-west12
- me-central2
For more information, see Supported regions.
August 01, 2023
Cloud LoggingOps Agent version 2.36.0 introduces support for Compute Engine Arm VMs that are running Debian 11 (Bullseye). For more information, see Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs.
July 26, 2023
Cloud LoggingStarting with version 2.35.0, the Ops Agent health-check log is renamed ops-agent-health; earlier versions of the Ops Agent that support health checks use the name ops-agent-health-checks.
July 21, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe Cloud Logging agent for Windows version 1-21 is now available. This version has no user-visible changes but upgrades the grpc gem and others to fix vulnerabilities. This also includes the switch to Ruby 3, from version 1-20 of the Logging agent.
You can now view logs that are stored in log buckets in different projects by using the Refine scope button in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Refine scope.
When viewing a span, you can now also view the linked spans. For more information, see View span details.
July 20, 2023
Cloud LoggingSupport for routing your logs through the Log Router of another Google Cloud project is now Generally Available (GA). For more information, see Route logs to supported destinations.
July 19, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe pricing language for Cloud Logging has changed; however, the free allotments and the rates haven't changed. For more information, see Cloud Logging pricing summary.
July 18, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now upgrade log buckets in most regions to use Log Analytics. To determine if the region of a log bucket is supported, see Supported regions.
July 10, 2023
Cloud LoggingTime ranges are now synchronized between select Logging and Monitoring pages.
July 06, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe Google Cloud console can now automatically install the Ops Agent for you when you create a VM instance. During the installation process, the Compute Engine VM Manager creates an Ops Agent OS policy that installs the agent and reinstalls it when necessary. For more information, see Install the Ops Agent during VM creation.
June 20, 2023
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:
- asia-east1
- europe-north1
- northamerica-northeast2
- us-east4
For more information, see Supported regions.
June 12, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now create log sinks with user-defined service accounts. For more information, see Configure log sinks with user-managed service accounts.
The Trace list page has been replaced with the Trace explorer page, which contains a more responsive and interactive Trace details section. The new design delivers an improved user experience when traversing spans and when viewing span details. For more information, see Find and explore traces.
June 05, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
May 31, 2023
Cloud LoggingCloud 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 24, 2023
Cloud DebuggerCloud 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 LoggingYou can now use SQL JOIN and UNION operators in queries on the Log Analytics page. For more information, see Combine data from multiple sources.
May 19, 2023
Cloud LoggingLog 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 15, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
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.
April 26, 2023
Cloud LoggingVersion 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 18, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can now configure Log Analytics on Cloud Logging buckets and BigQuery linked datasets by using the following Terraform modules:
April 11, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe 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.
March 31, 2023
Cloud LoggingEffective 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 29, 2023
Cloud LoggingWhen 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 LoggingThe Cloud Logging API now supports the following region:
- Doha:
me-central1
March 22, 2023
Cloud LoggingLog buckets in the following regions can now be upgraded to use Log Analytics:
asia-northeast1australia-southeast1europe-west1europe-west2northamerica-northeast1us-east1us-west2
For more information, see Supported regions.
March 14, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe 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 LoggingLog-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.
March 09, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
March 01, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou 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-central1us-west1asia-south1
For more information, see Supported regions.
February 23, 2023
Cloud LoggingThe time-range selector in the Logs Explorer 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. For more information, see Use the time-range selector.
February 17, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou can create log buckets that use Log Analytics and upgrade existing log buckets to use Log Analytics by using the Logging API. For more information, see Create a bucket.
February 16, 2023
Cloud LoggingVersion 2.25.1 of the Ops Agent introduces health checks. When the Ops Agent starts, it performs a series of checks for conditions that prevent the agent from running correctly. If the agent detects one of the conditions, it writes a message to its health-check log and exits. For more information, see Find Ops Agent troubleshooting information.
February 03, 2023
Error ReportingError 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 LoggingTo 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 17, 2023
Cloud LoggingYou 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 12, 2023
Error ReportingErrors 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
appvalue from your GKE YAML configuration is now used for the primary resource label (also referred to as "service"). - The
pod_namelabel of thek8s_containermonitored-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.
December 19, 2022
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now supports the following regions:
USEU
For more information, see Data regionality for Cloud Logging.
December 06, 2022
Error ReportingOn the Error Reporting page, use the new resource filter to filter error groups by resource type. For more information, see Filter errors.
December 01, 2022
Error ReportingError Reporting is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) supported service.
November 08, 2022
Cloud TraceThe Trace scatterplot now indicates traces with error codes as red. For more information, see Finding and viewing traces.
November 07, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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).
November 04, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe 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 LoggingYou can now collect Aerospike logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.22.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Aerospike.
October 24, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
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.
October 21, 2022
Cloud LoggingTo 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.
October 04, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
September 27, 2022
Cloud LoggingUsing 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 20, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe Cloud Logging API now supports the following region:
- Israel:
me-west1.
September 15, 2022
Cloud LoggingSupport for adding custom indexed LogEntry fields to your Cloud Logging buckets is now Generally Available. These indexes make querying your logs data faster.
September 08, 2022
Cloud LoggingCloud Audit Logging no longer redacts the principal email associated with service accounts in audit logs. For more information, see Caller identities in audit logs.
August 15, 2022
Cloud LoggingBucket-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.
August 04, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Explorer query results now show an icon for log entries that are part of error groups. You can click the icon to view details about the error group, exclude or show only log entries from the error group in the query results, or view related documentation. For more information, see Find log entries with error groups.
July 26, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
July 18, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now search your correlated log entries in the Logs Explorer. For more information, see Correlate log entries.
July 15, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
July 14, 2022
Cloud LoggingLog-based alerting is now generally available (GA). Log-based alerts match on 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. The minimum autoclose duration for incidents is now 30 minutes. For more information, see Monitor your logs and Use log-based alerts.
July 11, 2022
Error ReportingThe Logs Explorer now shows an Error Group button for log entries that are part of error groups. Click the button to access grouping details or to change which log entries the Logs Explorer shows. For more information, see Find log entries with error groups.
June 29, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now collect Apache Flink logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.17.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Flink.
June 27, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe Cloud Logging agent version 1-18 for Windows is now available. This version updates the location of the position files so they are retained across upgrades. For installation information, see Installing the Cloud Logging agent.
May 30, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Explorer has now replaced the Legacy Log Viewer.
The Logs Explorer is the updated version of the Logging interface, and lets you quickly and efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs from your queries. For a detailed tour of the Logs Explorer's features, see Using the Logs Explorer.
May 27, 2022
Cloud LoggingSupport has been removed for two previously deprecated system metrics: logging.googleapis.com/excluded_log_entry_count and logging.googleapis.com/excluded_byte_count.
May 26, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now collect IIS logs and additional metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with versions 2.14.0 (logs) and 2.15.0 (additional metrics). For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: IIS.
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.
You can now collect Active Directory Domain Services logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.15.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Active Directory Domain Services.
You can now collect Jetty logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.16.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Jetty.
May 20, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now see more log entries in the Logs Explorer as a result of several style changes.
May 16, 2022
Cloud DebuggerCloud Debugger is deprecated and is scheduled for shutdown on May 31 2023. For an alternative, use the open source CLI tool, Snapshot Debugger.
May 05, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now hide large amounts of similar log entries from your query results in the Logs Explorer. To learn more, see Hide similar logs.
April 28, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now comment within your Logging queries. For more information, see Logging query language: comments.
Preview: You can now get notification recommendations and insights for Error Reporting. For more information, see Error Reporting notification recommender and insights.
April 26, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now do the following in the improved Logs Explorer:
- Use the new plain-text search field and filter menus to construct queries without using the query language
- Customize your date and time format preferences for building queries and to display dates and times in the UI.
- Toggle on and off the default summary fields to see a raw-text view of your logs.
When querying your logs data in the Logs Explorer, you can now select queries from a library, making it easier to explore your data and find logs during time-critical troubleshooting sessions.
April 25, 2022
Cloud LoggingThe Cloud Logging API now supports the following regions:
- Europe:
europe-southwest1europe-west6europe-west8europe-west9
- South America:
southamerica-west1
For more information, see Data Regionality for Cloud Logging.
April 14, 2022
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Explorer, pinning log entries has been improved and new options to view pinned log entries in different resource contexts have been added. To learn more, see Pin log entries.
April 04, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now add indexed LogEntry fields to your Cloud Logging buckets to make querying your logs data faster.
March 28, 2022
Error ReportingError Reporting now supports Webhooks and Slack as notification channels. For more information, see Create notification channel.
March 25, 2022
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now supports organization policies that can enforce CMEK protection. For information, see CMEK organization policies.
March 21, 2022
Cloud LoggingCustomer-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 LoggingYou can now collect RabbitMQ logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.12.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: RabbitMQ.
February 22, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
February 14, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
February 10, 2022
Cloud LoggingYour regional preferences, including date and time formatting, are now supported in the Logs Explorer.
February 09, 2022
Cloud LoggingCompute Engine resource names, alongside their corresponding resource IDs, are now supported in the Logs Explorer. For details, see View Compute Engine logs.
February 02, 2022
Cloud DebuggerCloud Debugger now has Preview support for VPC Service Controls.
January 26, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou can now collect Apache Tomcat metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.9.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Apache Tomcat.
You can now collect PostgreSQL metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.9.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: PostgreSQL.
You can now collect Elasticsearch logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.9.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Elasticsearch.
Starting with Ops Agent version 2.9.0, you can use the exclude_logs logging processor to prevent the Ops Agent from ingesting specific logs. For more information, see Logging processors.
January 07, 2022
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
November 22, 2021
Cloud LoggingOn or after March 1, 2022, the Legacy Logs Viewer will be shut down and all users will be redirected to use the Logs Explorer.
October 20, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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 LoggingCloud 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 LoggingYou can now collect Apache httpd logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.4.0. For more information, see Collecting logs from third-party applications: Apache httpd.
The Ops Agent now supports collecting logs from the systemd-journald service, starting with Ops Agent version 2.4.0. For information on configuring the systemd_journald receiver, see Configuring the Ops Agent: Logging receivers.
August 31, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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 18, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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 02, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
July 30, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now lets you control access to individual log entry fields using field-level access control. To learn more, see Field-level access control.
July 29, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now supports the asia-east2 and europe-central2 regions. For a full list or regions, see Regionalization.
July 26, 2021
Cloud LoggingLog entries that are exported to BigQuery that result in a schema mismatch are now being written to an error table. For more information, see Mismatches in schema.
July 23, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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 LoggingYou 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 LoggingThe 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.
July 12, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
July 09, 2021
Cloud TraceCloud 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 ReportingError Reporting notifications has been upgraded to use the Alerting infrastructure. For more information, see the Notifications guide.
July 07, 2021
Cloud LoggingThe 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.
June 30, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud 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.
June 25, 2021
Cloud LoggingLog entries viewed in JSON format in the Cloud Console are now displayed with the field names in alphabetical order.
June 15, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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.
May 12, 2021
Cloud DebuggerCloud 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.
May 06, 2021
Cloud LoggingThe 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 03, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou can now add custom fields in the Logs Explorer to better analyze logs and refine your queries. For more information, see Adding fields to Log fields pane .
April 27, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou can now install the Cloud Logging agent, Cloud Monitoring agent, and Ops Agent on VMs running OpenSUSE Leap versions 15, 15.1, and 15.2.
April 21, 2021
Cloud LoggingYou 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 TraceCloud 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 12, 2021
Cloud LoggingShared queries are now generally available (GA). To learn more, see Shared queries.
April 08, 2021
Cloud LoggingThe Google Cloud Ops Agent is now available in Preview. This agent combines logging and metrics into a single agent that is targeted toward specialized logging workloads that require higher throughput and improved resource efficiency. It supports both Linux and Windows Compute Engine VMs.
Cloud Operations now offers the ability to install the Google Cloud Ops Agent via Ansible on Linux and Windows Compute Engine VMs.
Cloud Operations now offers the ability to provision the Google Cloud Ops Agent via Terraform on Linux and Windows Compute Engine VMs.
April 06, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now supports 22 regions in which you can create a log bucket so that you can meet compliance and audit requirements when storing your logs.
March 31, 2021
Error ReportingService Errors is now available Generally Available (GA). Service Errors automatically captures and groups Google Cloud service errors and notifies you when these errors occur. For more information, refer to the Managing Service Errors documentation.
March 29, 2021
Cloud LoggingLogs Views are now Generally Available (GA). Using Logs Views, you can control who has access to the logs within your Logs Buckets. For more information on this feature, refer to the Managing Logs Views guide.
March 18, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now shows the breakdown of log severity levels in the Histogram pane. To learn more, see the Histogram section on the Logs Explorer page.
March 12, 2021
Cloud LoggingSuggested queries is now generally available (GA). To learn more, go to Suggested queries.
March 04, 2021
Cloud LoggingCompute Engine's VM Instances dashboard now provides an Operations menu. The "View metrics" menu option brings you to the Infrastructure summary dashboard in Monitoring. The "View logs" menu option brings you to the Logs Explorer page in Logging.
Kubernetes Engine's Clusters and Workloads dashboards now provide an Operations menu. The "View metrics" menu option brings you to the GKE Dashboard in Monitoring. The "View logs" menu option brings you to the Logs Explorer page in Logging.
March 03, 2021
Error ReportingError Reporting has been updated to only analyze logs that are stored in global buckets in the same project where they are ingested. For more information, see Using Error Reporting with regionalized logs.
February 18, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging agent for Windows version 1-14 is now available. This version changes the default Windows configuration from using gRPC to REST for sending logs to the Cloud Logging API. For more information, refer to the release information on GitHub.
February 08, 2021
Cloud LoggingLogging truncates oversized LogEntry label keys and values. For details, see Quotas and limits.
January 29, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging has increased the number of entries.write API calls from 60,000 to 120,000 per minute. For more information on quotas and limits, see Quotas and limits.
January 26, 2021
Cloud LoggingThe 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 LoggingThe Logs Explorer now provides a higher degree of contrast that improves readability.
January 14, 2021
Cloud LoggingCloud 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 16, 2020
Cloud LoggingLogs 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.
December 08, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging calculates the system logs-based metrics byte_count and log_entry_count on stored logs only, unlike user-defined logs-based metrics which are calculated on both stored and excluded logs. For more information, see System logs-based metrics.
This change is currently rolling out and affects all users after December 11, 2020.
December 07, 2020
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Explorer, you can now stream your log entries in real time as Cloud Logging ingests them. To learn more, see Streaming logs.
November 13, 2020
Cloud LoggingYou can now use the Share link button in the Logs Explorer to create and share a shortened URL of your current query. For more information, see Using the Logs Explorer.
November 06, 2020
Cloud LoggingBy using the new gcloud command and API for live tailing, you can now stream your logs in real time as your applications write them to the Cloud Logging API. To learn more, see Live tailing log entries.
November 05, 2020
Cloud LoggingBeta release: You can set the region in which you want to store your logs data. For information about this feature, refer to the Regionalization documentation.
October 28, 2020
Cloud LoggingYou can now create sinks from within the Logs Explorer and Logs Router pages. To learn more, see Exporting logs with the Google Cloud Console.
To help you understand your logs volume and usage within the context of your Logs Buckets, the Resource Usage page has been moved to the Logs Storage page, which now contains your resource usage information. To learn more, see Tracking logs usage.
October 22, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now calculates logs-based metrics from both ingested and excluded logs. In other words, you can now calculate logs-based metrics from logs without ingesting them into a Logs Bucket.
This change started rolling out October 18, 2020 and will finish rolling out October, 30 2020.
For more information, see Overview of logs-based metrics.
Logs Views are now available in Preview. Using Logs Views, you can control who has access to the logs within your Logs Buckets. For more information on this feature, refer to the Managing Logs Views guide.
October 20, 2020
Cloud LoggingRecent queries is now generally available (GA). To learn more, go to Recent queries.
October 19, 2020
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Explorer you can now download your logs in JSON and CSV to your computer, Google Drive, or view them in a new tab. To learn more, see Downloading logs.
October 15, 2020
Cloud LoggingThe 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 LoggingWe'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 LoggingCloud Logging has deprecated the following two logs-based metrics related to exclusions:
logging.googleapis.com/excluded_log_entry_countlogging.googleapis.com/excluded_byte_count
Cloud Logging will stop populating these metrics on October 1, 2021.
September 29, 2020
Cloud ProfilerCloud Profiler history view is available in beta. For more information, see Viewing historical trends.
September 22, 2020
Cloud LoggingThe histogram panel in the Logs Viewer (Preview) now contains a viewport to help you quickly understand the time range of the log entries you're viewing within the Query results pane. To learn more, go to the Histogram panel.
September 21, 2020
Cloud LoggingLogs Buckets are now generally available. For information about this feature, refer to the Managing logs buckets guide.
September 17, 2020
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Viewer (Preview), you can now pin log entries within the Query results and Histogram panes. To learn more, go to Pinning logs.
In the Logs Viewer (Preview), you can now view a log entry in its resource context. To learn more, go to Viewing a pinned log entry in its resource context.
You can now copy a link to a log entry in the Logs Viewer (Preview). To learn more, go to Copy a link to a log entry.
September 14, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now offers the ability to view a history of your ran queries through the Recent queries tab. To learn more, go to the Recent queries section on the Building queries page.
September 01, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging updated IAM custom role permissions. Users with custom roles should verify their permissions are correct. For a list of the permissions and roles, go to the Permissions and Roles section on the Access control page.
August 28, 2020
Cloud TraceCloud Trace exemplars can now be viewing in Cloud Monitoring. For more information about Trace exemplars, see Cloud Trace exemplars. For more information about viewing exemplars, see Exploring charted data.
August 24, 2020
Cloud LoggingYou can now view Cloud Trace information from within the Logs Viewer. To learn more, go to the Trace data section on the Using Logs Viewer (Preview) page.
August 17, 2020
Cloud LoggingTo help you explore your logs more efficiently, Cloud Logging now provides suggested queries based on the context of your Google Cloud project. For more information, go to Suggested queries.
The Cloud Trace viewer now supports search by the trace ID. For more information, see Viewing Trace Details.
August 11, 2020
Cloud LoggingUsers now manage logs exclusions through logs sinks. As a result, custom roles that have the logging.sinks.* permissions can now control the volume of logs ingested into Cloud Logging through logs sinks.
We recommend that you review any custom roles with the logging.sinks.* permissions so that you can make adjustments as needed.
Beta release: You can now use Logs Buckets to centralize or divide your logs based on your needs. For information about this feature, refer to the Managing logs buckets guide.
August 03, 2020
Cloud LoggingAlpha release: You can now use Logs Buckets to centralize or divide your logs based on your needs. For information about this feature, refer to the Managing logs buckets guide. To participate in the alpha or to get notified when Logs Buckets goes beta, fill out the sign up form.
July 30, 2020
Cloud LoggingThe Logs field explorer panel is now generally available (GA). To learn more, see the Logs field explorer section on Logs Viewer (Preview) interface page.
June 30, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now contains a Logs Dashboard page that provides a high-level overview into the health of your systems running within a project. To learn more, see Logs Dashboard.
June 29, 2020
Cloud DebuggerCloud Debugger now lets you canary snapshots and logpoints on your Node.js applications. To learn more, see the Node.js page for setting up Cloud Debugger.
June 17, 2020
Cloud DebuggerCloud Debugger now lets you canary snapshots and logpoints on your Python applications. To learn more, see the Python page for setting up Cloud Debugger.
June 05, 2020
Cloud LoggingCustom retention is now generally available (GA). In order to have time to explore this feature, you won't be charged for extended retention of logs until March 31, 2021. To learn more, see the Logging pricing section on the Pricing for Google Cloud's operations suite page.
June 03, 2020
Cloud LoggingIn the Logs Viewer (Preview), you can now save your queries, which can then be viewed and run from the Saved queries tab. For more information, see the Saved queries section on the Building queries page.
May 19, 2020
Cloud DebuggerCloud Debugger now lets you canary snapshots and logpoints on your Java applications. To learn more, see the Java page for setting up Cloud Debugger.
May 18, 2020
Cloud LoggingLogs Viewer now contains the Logs field explorer panel, which lets you view aggregation-based results for your project's log fields and makes it more efficient to refine queries. To learn more, go to the Logs Viewer (Preview) page.
May 12, 2020
Cloud ProfilerThe Cloud Profiler Python agent is now generally available. See Profiling Python applications for information on configuring your Python application.
May 11, 2020
Cloud LoggingYou can now use regular expressions to query your logs data and create filters. For more information, go to Using regular expressions.
April 27, 2020
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Viewer (Preview) is now GA. To learn more, go to the Logs Viewer (Preview) Overview page.
April 20, 2020
Cloud ProfilerThe 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 TraceYou can now use OpenTelemetry with Go and Node.js to instrument your applications running on GKE and Compute Engine.
March 24, 2020
Cloud ProfilerIntegration of Stackdriver Profiler with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now Generally Available. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.
March 17, 2020
Cloud LoggingIncoming log entries must have timestamps that don't exceed the logs retention periods in the past, and that don't exceed 24 hours in the future. Log entries outside those time boundaries aren't ingested by Cloud Logging.
March 12, 2020
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging Agent for Windows version 1-11 is now available. This version upgrades fluentd from 1.4.2 to 1.7.4. Go to Installing the Cloud Logging agent for information on installing this version of the agent.
March 10, 2020
Cloud LoggingLogs Viewer (Preview) now contains a histogram panel. The histogram panel lets you visualize your logs data to more easily spot patterns and troubleshoot issues. For more information, see Using Logs Viewer (Preview).
February 24, 2020
Cloud LoggingBeta release: You can now use the new Logs Viewer (Preview) to view, parse and analyze log data, and refine your query parameters. Go to Logs Viewer interface (Preview) for more information.
February 20, 2020
Cloud TraceIntegration 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 TraceBeta release: Export of Stackdriver Trace data to BigQuery. For more information, see Managing Trace exports.
February 17, 2020
Cloud LoggingBETA: You can now configure the retention periods of your logs data. For more information, go to Storing logs.
February 06, 2020
Cloud TraceThe Stackdriver Trace API v2 is now Generally Available.
January 17, 2020
Cloud LoggingCustomer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for the Logs Router are now Generally Available (GA). CMEK lets you create, control, and manage encryption keys to meet your data compliance needs. For details, go to Enabling customer-managed encryption keys for Logs Router.
December 16, 2019
Cloud LoggingGA release: You can now use partitioned tables for logs exports to BigQuery. For details, go to Partitioned tables.
Integration of Stackdriver Trace with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now beta. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.
December 13, 2019
Cloud LoggingGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) version 1.15, which is now generally available, drops support for GKE versions 1.12 and earlier. As a result, the beta version of Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring is no longer supported. If your GKE clusters are running version 1.12 or earlier, then you must upgrade them as soon as possible.
Strackdriver Profiler supports Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine for Go, Java, Python, and Node.js services. This feature is now in Beta.
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
Cloud LoggingLegacy Stackdriver support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is deprecated. If you're using Legacy Stackdriver, then you must migrate to Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring before Legacy Stackdriver is decommissioned. For more information, see Legacy Stackdriver support for GKE deprecation.
December 10, 2019
Cloud ProfilerIntegration of Stackdriver Profiler with Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls is now beta. For more information, see VPC Service Controls documentation.
November 20, 2019
Cloud TraceThe Trace list page has a new menu-driven filtering solution that is in Beta release testing. For more information, see Finding and viewing traces.
November 18, 2019
Cloud LoggingCustomer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for the Logs Router are now available in Beta. CMEK lets you create, control, and manage encryption keys to meet your data compliance needs. For details, go to Enabling customer-managed encryption keys for Logs Router.
November 12, 2019
Cloud DebuggerStackdriver Debugger has an updated and expanded quickstart guide showing how to install the agent and debug an app while it's in production. See the Debugger Quickstart guide for more information.
September 20, 2019
Cloud LoggingBeta release: Stackdriver Logging now offers partitioned tables for exports to BigQuery. For details, go to Partitioned tables.
September 10, 2019
Cloud LoggingStackdriver 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.
July 31, 2019
Cloud DebuggerCloud 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 LoggingStackdriver 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.
May 08, 2019
Cloud ProfilerJava 11 is now supported. For more information, see Profiling Java.
API
Error events written as instances of ReportedErrorEvent generate properly formatted error messages in Stackdriver Logging.
April 23, 2019
Cloud LoggingThe 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.
April 15, 2019
Cloud LoggingA 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 ProfilerStackdriver 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 15, 2019
Cloud LoggingStackdriver 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.
March 12, 2019
Cloud ProfilerPython is now supported. For more information, see Profiling Python.
February 28, 2019
Cloud ProfilerThe 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 LoggingYou 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.
January 22, 2019
Cloud LoggingIn 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 ReportingError detection for Python applications has been improved. You might see more newly detected error groups or receive more notifications.
December 18, 2018
Cloud TraceTrace 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.
December 07, 2018
Cloud ProfilerGo 1.11 for App Engine standard environment is now supported. For more information, see Profiling Go.
December 03, 2018
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Viewer has a new option to display a log entry in its resource context. It can also pin a log entry while allowing you to change the display context. See Viewing Logs for details.
November 01, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now view error and success metrics for your log sinks using export system metrics.
October 31, 2018
Cloud TraceStackdriver Trace enforces consumption-based pricing as of November 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.
On November 1, 2018, Stackdriver Trace begins enforcing a daily trace spans ingestion quota. See Stackdriver Trace Quotas & Limits for details.
October 19, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now link from certain App Engine request logs to a detailed trace that explains the request's latency. You can also filter log entries according to their latencies, and if they contain detailed trace data viewable by Stackdriver Trace. See Viewing latency in Trace for details.
October 01, 2018
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Viewer can now download up to 300 log entries in JSON or CSV format. See Viewing Logs for details.
September 14, 2018
Cloud LoggingThe format of service account names for older log sinks is being changed so that all log sinks will have consistent service account names. This naming format has already been applied to project-level sinks on BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage permission pages. In the coming weeks, this naming format will be applied to organization-level sinks and folder-level sinks, and to sinks listed on the Logs Exports page in the Logs Viewer. There are no associated changes to functionality or granted permissions.
September 05, 2018
Cloud LoggingAccess Transparency logging is now Generally Available. See Overview of Access Transparency for details.
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 ProfilerThe 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 LoggingAudit logs exports to BigQuery now feature a compact format. On March 1, 2019, the older extended format will be removed.
July 24, 2018
Cloud ProfilerThe 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 LoggingOn July 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT, Stackdriver switches to consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.
June 26, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now immediately disable all logs ingestion. For instructions, see Stopping all logs ingestion.
June 19, 2018
Cloud LoggingGoogle Cloud Storage logs streaming time has been reduced from 12 hours to 3 hours. For details, see Using Exported Logs.
June 18, 2018
Cloud LoggingBetween June 18, 2018 at 06:00 PDT and July 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT, your use of Stackdriver is free. The service tiers have been removed, and you can experience all features without incurring costs. Thereafter, Stackdriver switches to consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Upcoming Pricing.
June 12, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now enable and configure your Data Access audit logs using the Google Cloud console. For details, see Configuring Data Access logs.
May 17, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now see your Logging usage and estimate your bill according to the new Stackdriver pricing and in advance of billing enforcement. See Estimating your bills for details.
May 15, 2018
Cloud ProfilerThe new Focus filter lets you analyze the aggregate resource consumption of a specific function and the proportion of time spent in the function by different callers. For more information, see Using the Focus Filter.
May 08, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now specify custom fields in your Logs Viewer log-entry summary lines. See Add custom fields for details.
May 02, 2018
Cloud LoggingStackdriver 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.
April 10, 2018
Cloud LoggingYou can now specify that the Stackdriver Logging agent converts your payloads to JSON format for certain log inputs. For details on enabling this feature, see Structured Logging.
April 04, 2018
Cloud TraceThe Trace Viewer now allows you to view trace spans for related Google Cloud Platform projects in one view. See Viewing traces across projects for details.
March 28, 2018
Cloud ProfilerStackdriver Profiler is released in Beta.
Stackdriver Trace Data Access audit logs are now Generally Available. See Stackdriver Trace Audit Logging for details.
March 12, 2018
Cloud LoggingBeginning 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.
Beginning on June 30, 2018, Stackdriver is switching to consumption-based pricing, including revised quotas. For more information, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.
February 27, 2018
Cloud TraceThe Trace Viewer now associates logs entries with trace spans when the
LogEntry span_id field is specified. See
Integrating with Cloud Logging
for details.
The Trace Viewer now follows your scroll through the span details page, making it easier to see span details of large traces.
February 01, 2018
Cloud LoggingThe Logging agent now supports partial success for logs ingestion. Any invalid log entries in a full set will be dropped, and the valid log entries now will be successfully ingested into the Stackdriver Logging API; previously, the full set would have been dropped if it contained any invalid log entries. To enable partial success, upgrade your Logging agent to google-fluentd v1.5.27.
January 12, 2018
Cloud TraceThe Trace viewer now shows sub-millisecond resolution for Trace spans.
January 09, 2018
Cloud TraceThe Trace viewer now displays span annotations and message events written with the Stackdriver Trace API v2. See Viewing Trace Details for more information.
December 19, 2017
Error ReportingResolution Status features are now Generally Available. You can now assign a status to your error groups, making it easier to triage errors.
December 13, 2017
Cloud LoggingFiltering logs by time range is now available in the Logs Viewer. For more information, see Scroll to a time.
December 04, 2017
Cloud LoggingLogging 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
Cloud LoggingLogs-based metrics are now Generally Available. For more information, see Overview of Logs-based Metrics.
Logging agent installation instructions: The checksum validation step for the installation script has been removed. You can see the new instructions on the logging agent installation page.
Logs Viewer update: Fixes a problem related to the daylight saving time transition in the U.K. If you see your logs displaying in the wrong time zone, you can set your default time zone by using the Jump to date drop-down menu to select a different time zone. For more information, see Logs Viewer user interfaces.
November 03, 2017
Cloud DebuggerCompute Engine (Go): The support for Go applications on Compute Engine VM instances is in Beta release. Your Go applications should be compiled without the default optimizations, or else Stackdriver Debugger might show incorrect information about your application.
November 01, 2017
Cloud LoggingPricing changes: Billing for logs overages will begin March 31, 2018. This date extends the one that was previously communicated to give Stackdriver customers more time to apply the exclusion filters feature to control which logs are stored in Logging. Billing for custom and user-defined logs-based metrics is still postponed. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.
October 31, 2017
Cloud TraceThe Stackdriver Trace API v2 is now in Beta release. For a comparison of the v1 and v2 APIs, see Stackdriver Trace API.
October 30, 2017
Cloud LoggingExclusion filters are now Generally Available. For more information, see Excluding Logs, and the Resource Usage page in the Logs Viewer.
October 24, 2017
Cloud LoggingThe gcloud logging command group is now generally available. gcloud beta
logging will be removed at the end of December 2017. For more information,
see gcloud logging.
October 02, 2017
Cloud TraceThe 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 12, 2017
Cloud LoggingAdmin 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.
August 31, 2017
Cloud LoggingLogs-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 LoggingAggregated 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.
August 01, 2017
Cloud TraceThe 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 LoggingIAM 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.
June 05, 2017
Cloud LoggingExported 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.
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.
IAM roles: Stackdriver Error Reporting IAM roles are now available. See Error Reporting IAM roles.
May 01, 2017
Cloud LoggingData 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.
Error filters: You can now filter errors by custom text in addition to filtering by time, service, and version.
April 01, 2017
Cloud LoggingResource types: Several new resource types are added, including types for Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow, and Cloud Container Engine.
March 31, 2017
Cloud LoggingV1 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.
February 06, 2017
Cloud LoggingExporting 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-Google Cloud sources, including Amazon Web Services, are rejected.
Zipkin tracer compatibility: Stackdriver Trace is now compatible with Zipkin tracers. For more information, see this blog post.
Scatter plots: We've added a new scatter-plot selection tool to the Stackdriver Trace UI. This lets you more quickly identify, view, and compare interesting traces.
December 12, 2016
Cloud LoggingLogs Viewer v2: The Logs Viewer has been migrated to the Stackdriver Logging API v2. For the full documentation, Viewing Logs (v2). Note: Obsolete link to migration information removed on December 13, 2017. For updated information, see APIs & Reference.
List logs: the Stackdriver Logging API now has "list logs" methods:
organizations.logs.list and
projects.logs.list.
New LogEntry fields: Fields trace and sourceLocation were added to
LogEntry.
November 21, 2016
Cloud LoggingOrganizations: The Stackdriver Logging API now allows both projects and organizations to
own logs. A log belonging to an organization is named
"organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/logs/[LOG_ID]". See
organizations.logs.delete.
Sinks: The Stackdriver Logging API now allows both projects and organizations to own sinks.
In addition, sinks can now export log entries to destinations in other projects. See
LogSink.
October 20, 2016
Cloud DebuggerDebugger 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.
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.
Analysis Reports: Compare your application's latency profile across time and versions.
Cloud Functions: Cloud Functions automatically reports unhandled JavaScript exceptions to Stackdriver Error Reporting.
September 09, 2016
Cloud LoggingThe Google Cloud Logging API is now known as the Stackdriver Logging API. This change does not affect any code.
September 08, 2016
Error ReportingC++ and Ruby are now supported.
PHP stack traces are better supported.
August 16, 2016
Error ReportingCloud Console mobile app now supports Error Reporting.
July 18, 2016
Error ReportingApp Engine: Error Reporting is now generally available for Google App Engine standard environment.
July 12, 2016
Error ReportingAPI: The Stackdriver Error Reporting API has a new endpoint to
report errors:
projects.events.report.
June 27, 2016
Error ReportingThe Google Cloud console home page now has an Error Reporting card.
June 15, 2016
Cloud LoggingA 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.
April 27, 2016
Cloud LoggingThe 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.
March 23, 2016
Cloud LoggingGoogle 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 projects. See Logging agent for more details.
March 17, 2016
Error ReportingBeta release of Stackdriver Error Reporting.
February 18, 2016
Cloud LoggingThe logging agent authorization
instructions now recommend storing private-key credentials as
/etc/google/auth/application_default_credentials.json. You do not have to move your existing
file at /root/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json.
January 29, 2016
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Viewer now lets you view the structure of log entries. You can also show or hide log entries with similar field values.
December 10, 2015
Cloud LoggingVersion 2 of the Cloud Logging API is now
available. Among other changes, the V2 API lets you retrieve log entries
from Logging using the
entries.list method.
October 22, 2015
Cloud LoggingThe Logs Viewer now has cascading menus for selecting log entries from Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine.
October 13, 2015
Cloud LoggingSee logs-based-metrics to learn how to create Google Cloud Monitoring metrics using logs filters.
The list of log types has been expanded.
September 15, 2015
Cloud LoggingAdded Java examples of Logging API usage. Simplified the authorization code for Java and Python, and the same code now runs on App Engine, Compute Engine, and your development workstation.
September 09, 2015
Cloud LoggingThe command-line interface
in the Google Cloud SDK is now named gcloud beta logging.
August 12, 2015
Cloud LoggingThe Cloud Logging API and command-line interface now support project sinks. A project sink can export log entries from any combination of logs, based on advanced logs filters.
August 03, 2015
Cloud LoggingCloud Logging now has advanced logs filters that let you specify arbitrary Boolean expressions that match on log entries. See Using advanced logs filters in the Logs Viewer, and the Advanced Logs Filters guide.
June 15, 2015
Cloud LoggingThe logging agent has new, simpler installation instructions You no longer have to edit the agent's configuration file to install private-key authorization.
The Logging documentation has been reorganized. The table of contents now groups all information about the logging agent, viewing logs, and exporting logs in individual sections.
May 21, 2015
Cloud LoggingA new Google Cloud Console UI panel for the logs export feature
was released. The UI lets you export a subset of your logs from a logs service. For example,
you could export syslog from Google Compute Engine without exporting activity_log.
April 28, 2015
Cloud LoggingYou can now stream logs from Cloud Logging to Google Cloud Pub/Sub and from there to your own endpoints. This involves changes to logs export. For example, use Cloud Pub/Sub to route logs through Google Cloud Dataflow and into tools like Google BigQuery.
March 19, 2015
Cloud LoggingThe Google Cloud Logging API is now available in Beta release. The API lets you write logs, create logs, and control the export of logs. Client libraries make it easy to use the API in your favorite programming language.
The glcoud logging command-line interface, which uses
the API, is now available in Beta release. The commands provide an easy way to perform
administrative tasks such configuring logs export.
Cloud Logging is now available in Beta release, allowing you to configure, visualize, analyze and export your Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine logs.
The google-fluentd logging agent runs with
additional operating systems,
including Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and CentOS. A single script installs the agent on any
supported operating system.
The google-fluentd logging agent supports
two dozen third-party logs.
The Logs Viewer refresh brings more search options and quicker access to logs export configurations. Regex-search has been removed as part of this refresh.
The Cloud Logging documentation has been improved with more set-up options, simpler procedures and more examples.
January 15, 2015
Cloud LoggingBeta release: App Engine logs can be exported to Cloud Storage and BigQuery.