Search, sort, and query logs through flexible query statements, along with rich histogram visualizations, simple field explorers, and ability to save the queries.

Write any custom log, from on-premises or another cloud, using our public write APIs.

Alert on specific messages in your logs or alert on logs-based metrics with Cloud Monitoring.

Platform and workload logging data ingested into Cloud Logging is made available in Log Analytics, which is powered by BigQuery. Perform advanced analytics using SQL to query your logs. The log data is also made available directly in BigQuery so you can correlate your logs with other business data.

Configure different retention periods for logs in different log buckets, and criteria for different logs using the Logs Router.

Create metrics from log data which appears seamlessly in Cloud Monitoring, where you can visualize these metrics and create dashboards.

Access audit logs that capture all the admin and data access events within Google Cloud, with 400 days of data retention at no additional cost.

Integrate with external systems using Pub/Sub and configuring Logs Router to export the logs.

Store logs for a longer duration at lower cost by easily exporting into Cloud Storage.

Error Reporting lets you see problems through the noise by automatically analyzing your logs for exceptions and intelligently aggregating them into meaningful error groups.

Log buckets provide a first-class logs storage solution that lets you centralize or subdivide your logs based on your needs. From there, use log views to specify which logs a user should have access to, all through standard IAM controls.