Monday, December 10, 2018

GCP: Stack Driver Logging

Stackdriver Logging allows one to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Stackdriver Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs.

Stackdriver Logging is a fully integrated solution that works seamlessly with Stackdriver Monitoring, Trace, Error Reporting, and Debugger.
The integration allows you to navigate between incidents, charts, traces, errors, and logs. This helps you quickly find the root cause of issues in your system and applications

Stackdriver Logging is built to scale and works well at sub-second ingestion latency at terabytes per second.
Stackdriver Logging is a fully managed solution that takes away overhead of deploying or managing a cluster

Below are the main features for Stack Driver Logging

Custom Logs / Ingestion API : Stackdriver Logging has a public API which can be used to write any custom log, from any source, into the service.
AWS Integration / Agent : Stackdriver Logging uses a Google-customized and packaged Fluentd agent that can be installed on any AWS or Cloud Platform VM to ingest log data from Cloud Platform instances (for example, Compute Engine, Managed VMs, or Containers) as well as AWS EC2 instances.
Logs Retention : Allows you to retain the logs in Stackdriver Logging for 30 days, and gives you a one-click configuration tool to archive data for a longer period in Google Cloud Storage.
Logs Search : A powerful interface to search, slice and dice, and browse log data.
Logs Based Metrics : Stackdriver Logging allows you to create metrics from log data which appear seamlessly in Stackdriver Monitoring, where you can visualize these metrics and create dashboards.
Logs Alerting : ntegration with Stackdriver Monitoring allows you to set alerts on the logs events, including the logs-based metrics you have defined.
Advanced Analytics with BigQuery : Take out data with one-click configuration in real time to BigQuery for advanced analytics and SQL-like querying.
Archive with Cloud Storage : Export log data to Google Cloud Storage to archive so you can store data for longer periods of time in a cost-effective manner.
Stream Logs with Cloud Pub/Sub : Stream your logging data via Cloud Pub/Sub with a third-party solution or a custom endpoint of your choice.
Third-party Integrations: Stackdriver Logging supports easy integration with Splunk and other partners.
Audit Logging : Stackdriver Logs Viewer, APIs, and the gCloud CLI can be used to access audit logs that capture all the admin and data access events within the Google Cloud Platform

The pricing for this is First 50 GiB is free and then onwards 0.5GiB.


References:
https://cloud.google.com/logging/

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