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Four Steps To Managing Your Cloud Logging Costs On A Budget

As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on prem and in other clouds as well. Step 1: Analyze your current spending on logging tools To get started, create an itemized list of what volume of data is going where and what it costs. We’ll start with the billing report and the obvious line…
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From Receipts To Riches: Save Money W/ Google Cloud & Supermarket Bills – Part 1

In today’s world, every penny counts, and saving money on supermarket spending is no exception. Have you ever wondered:  This is the first part of a two-part blog series that demonstrates how simple it is to combine managed services on Google Cloud to create a complete application that digitizes your grocery receipts and analyzes your spending patterns using Google Cloud services. This architecture is useful for any number of use cases where you want to apply the power of document AI to fully event-driven processing pipelines. In this first part of the blog series, we will discuss how to extract…
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How To Use Log Analytics In Cloud Logging To Gain Deeper Network Insights

Network logs serve a critical purpose in Google Cloud by helping users troubleshoot, manage, and optimize their networks. Cloud Logging provides a logging pipeline to reliably ingest network logs like VPC Flow Logs at scale and tools to quickly find and analyze network logs. Since Log Analytics launched as Generally Available (GA) in January, network admins now have entirely new capabilities to search and aggregate network logs to easily gain insights into network trends, discover anomalies, and troubleshoot potential networking issues. Since the cost for Log Analytics is included in the Cloud Logging ingestion cost, you can now get more insight and value out of your…
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Cloud Logging Pricing For Cloud Admins: How To Approach It & Save Cost

Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report 2022 pointed out that significant cloud spending is wasted, a major issue that is getting more critical as cloud costs continue to rise. In the current macroeconomic conditions, companies focus on identifying ways to reduce spending. To effectively do that, we need to understand the pricing model. We can then work towards the challenges of cost monitoring, optimization, and forecasting. One area that often gets overlooked in budgeting is observability—logging, monitoring, tracing. This can represent a significant cost, especially if it’s not optimized. Let’s explore how to understand and optimize our most voluminous data…
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Accelerate Your Developer Productivity With Query Library

Our goal in Cloud Logging is to help increase developer productivity by streamlining the troubleshooting process. The time spent on writing and executing a query, and then analyzing the errors can impact developer productivity. Whether you’re troubleshooting an issue or analyzing your logs, finding the right logs quickly, is critical. That’s why we recently launched a Query Library and other new features to make querying your logs even easier. The Query Library in Cloud Logging makes it easier to find logs faster by using common queries. Build queries faster with our templates The new text search and drop-down features are…
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Five Must-Know Security And Compliance Features In Cloud Logging

As enterprise and public sector cloud adoption continues to accelerate, having an accurate picture of who did what in your cloud environment is important for security and compliance purposes. Logs are critical when you are attempting to detect a breach, investigating ongoing security issues, or performing forensic investigations. These five must-know Cloud Logging security and compliance features can help customers create logs to best conduct security audits. The first three features were launched recently in 2022, while the last two features have been available for some time. 1. Cloud Logging is a part of Assured Workloads. Google Cloud’s Assured Workloads helps customers meet compliance requirements…
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Announcing New Simple Query Options In Cloud Logging

When you’re troubleshooting an issue, finding the root cause often involves finding specific logs generated by infrastructure and application code. The faster you can find logs, the faster you can confirm or refute your hypothesis about the root cause and resolve the issue. Today, we’re pleased to announce a simpler way to find logs in Logs Explorer. Making querying even easier Over the past 2 years, we heard feedback that many users needed simple free text search to find their logs. We also heard that users wanted to build a query using the dropdown selectors. We took all that feedback…
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Analyze Pacemaker Events In Cloud Logging

Customer’s deploying SAP on Google Cloud often leverage Pacemaker for high availability to support their most critical systems. Let’s take a look at how you can use Cloud Logging to easily conduct root cause analysis of Pacemaker clusters. When there are multiple Pacemaker clusters running in Google Cloud platform, a central logging place can help to store the Pacemaker logs and offer an easy way to analyze Pacemaker events such as fencing or resource failover. The Ops Agent is the primary agent for collecting telemetry from your Compute Engine instances. Combining logging and metrics into a single agent, the Ops Agent uses Fluent Bit for logs,…
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Patterns For Better Insights And Troubleshooting With Hybrid Cloud Logs

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments produce a boundless array of logs including application and server logs, logs related to cloud services, APIs, orchestrators, gateways and just about anything else running in the environment. Due to this high volume, logging systems may become slow and unmanageable when you urgently need them to troubleshoot an issue, and even harder to use them to get insights. Google Cloud’s operations suite plays a vital role in any application modernization framework and is essential to assuring a reliable and secure application, providing monitoring, logging and alerting — the baseline of SRE and Google’s holistic approach to…
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Introduction To Google Cloud’s Operations Suite

You know the time when you want to see how your cloud deployment is behaving or if something is broken in production and your users might be impacted. You are scrambling because there are too many tools to look through to find and resolve the issue. That’s where Google Cloud’s operations suite comes in. Click to enlarge What is the operations suite? Google Cloud’s operations suite is made up of products to monitor, troubleshoot and operate your services at scale, enabling your DevOps, SREs, or ITOps teams to utilize the Google SRE best practices. It offers integrated capabilities for monitoring,…
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