Google Cloud Logging

Google Cloud Logging (formerly Stackdriver Logging) is a fully managed service that allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.

Cloud Logging automatically collects logs from GCP services including Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, and Cloud Functions. These logs can be exported to Falcon LogScale Collector through Pub/Sub topics for real-time streaming or through Cloud Storage buckets for batch processing.

Data Flow

The following diagram shows how Google Cloud Logging exports flow through Log Collector's ingestion pipeline:

flowchart LR A[Google Cloud Services] --> B[Google Cloud Pub/Sub] B --> C[LogScale GCP Connector] C --> D[Parser Pipeline] subgraph "Parser Types" D --> D1[JSON Parser] D --> D2[GCP Audit Logs Parser] D --> D3[Stackdriver Parser] D --> D4[GKE Logs Parser] end D1 & D2 & D3 & D4 --> E[Compression] E --> F[Repository Storage]
flowchart LR A[Google Cloud Services] --> B[Google Cloud Pub/Sub] B --> C[LogScale GCP Connector] C --> D[Parser Pipeline] subgraph "Parser Types" D --> D1[JSON Parser] D --> D2[GCP Audit Logs Parser] D --> D3[Stackdriver Parser] D --> D4[GKE Logs Parser] end D1 & D2 & D3 & D4 --> E[Compression] E --> F[Repository Storage]

The integration enables organizations to centralize their GCP logs alongside other data sources in LogScale for unified analysis and long-term retention at lower cost than Cloud Logging's native storage.