Google Cloud Logging

Monitor Google Stackdriver Logging Service Performance

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Not Included in the BindPlane with Google Cloud Monitoring offering

All of the Google Cloud Platform sources listed within this documentation are not included with the BindPlane with Google Cloud Monitoring offering.

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Least Privileged User

A user role with the at least the following permissions is required:

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Deploying a Least Privileged User

To learn more about how to deploy a role with these permissions to a GCP Organization, or a GCP Project, please refer to this documentation:
Deploy an Individual LPU role to a GCP Project, or GCP Organization

- cloudnotifications.activities.list
- monitoring.alertPolicies.get
- monitoring.alertPolicies.list
- monitoring.dashboards.get
- monitoring.dashboards.list
- monitoring.groups.get
- monitoring.groups.list
- monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
- monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
- monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.get
- monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.list
- monitoring.notificationChannelDescriptors.get
- monitoring.notificationChannelDescriptors.list
- monitoring.notificationChannels.get
- monitoring.notificationChannels.list
- monitoring.publicWidgets.get
- monitoring.publicWidgets.list
- monitoring.timeSeries.list
- monitoring.uptimeCheckConfigs.get
- monitoring.uptimeCheckConfigs.list
- resourcemanager.projects.get
- resourcemanager.projects.list
- stackdriver.projects.get- 
- logging.logMetrics.list
- logging.logMetrics.get
- logging.sinks.list
- logging.sinks.get
- logging.usage.get
- logging.exclusions.list
- logging.exclusions.get
- logging.logMetrics.list
- logging.logMetrics.get

Connection Parameters

NameRequired?Description
Private Key JSONRequiredThe contents of the private key JSON file created when setting up a service account.
Metric CollectionControls which metrics get requested from GCP's Stackdriver API.
ProjectsRequiredA comma separated whitelist of project IDs. If the wildcard "*" is used, resources will be collected from all available projects.
Connection TimeoutThe number of seconds to allow for connecting to the target.

Metrics

Exclusion

NameDescription
Excluded Log Data (Bytes per Second)Amount of data in log entries that were excluded.
Excluded Log Entries (Bytes per Second)Amount of data entries that were excluded.
Log Data (Bytes per Second)Amount of data in all log entries ingested.
Log Entries (per Second)Number of log entries that contributed to user-defined metrics.
Logs-based Metric Active Time Series CountEstimate of the active time series count for logs-based metrics.
Logs-based Metric Errors (per Second)Number of log entries that did not contribute to user defined metrics.
Logs-based Metric Throttled StatusIndicates if points are being dropped for logs-based metrics due to exceeding time series limits.
NameThe client-assigned identifier.
Project IDThe project ID in which this resource was created.

Log

NameDescription
Data (Bytes per Second)Amount of data in all log entries ingested.
Entries (per Second)Number of log entries that contributed to user-defined metrics.
Logs-based Metric Errors (per Second)Number of log entries that did not contribute to user defined metrics.
NameThe name of the log.
Project IDThe identifier of the project this resource applies to.

Logging Resource Type

NameDescription
Log Data Ingested (Bytes)Log data ingested.
Monthly Log Data Ingested (Bytes)Month-to-date log data ingested.
Project IDThe identifier of the project this resource applies to.
Resource TypeThe resource type that is being logged.

Sink

NameDescription
DestinationThe destination of the sink.
Excluded Log Data (Bytes per Second)Amount of data in log entries that were excluded.
Excluded Log Entries (per Second)Number of log entries that were excluded.
Log Data (Bytes per Second)Amount of data in all log entries ingested.
Log Entries (per Second)Number of log entries that contributed to user-defined metrics.
Logs-based Metric Errors (per Second)Number of log entries that did not contribute to user defined metrics.
NameThe client-assigned identifier.
Project IDThe project ID in which this resource was created.