Cloud Workstations container output logging

This page describes Cloud Workstations container output logs generated by individual workstations.

Overview

Standard container output logs and standard container error logs generated by the workstation container are sent to Cloud Logging for monitoring and debugging.

To view container output logs for a particular workstation:

1. Ensure that your configuration specifies a service account that has the Logs Writer role (roles/logging.logWriter) and Monitoring Metric Writer (roles/monitoring.metricWriter) on your project.

   Caution: If you do not specify a service account on your configuration, the workstation uses a default service account. However, this default service account cannot be used for collecting container output logs.

2. Start a workstation.

3. Check the Cloud Workstations platform logs to determine the ID of the virtual machine (VM) that the workstation was assigned to.

4. To view container logs for this workstation, navigate to the Logs Explorer and update the query to the following:

   resource.type="gce_instance" resource.labels.instance_id=INSTANCE_ID
   

   Replace INSTANCE_ID with the instance_id that appears in the platform logs from the previous step.

Note: Errors in the container output logs won't necessarily be logged at severity ERROR. Don't add a severity filter while looking for errors in the container output logs.

What's next

• Learn more about the Cloud Workstations logging API.

• Understand and manage Google Cloud platform logs.

• Learn more about Cloud Workstations audit logging.