# Cloud Logging
- [Main page](https://cloud.google.com/logging/)
# Tech thinks to remember
- Connects with [[Google Kubernetes Engine#Cloud Operations for GKE]]
- Central repository for logs
- Use a FluentD agent, but specific to Google
- retention is 30 days
- logs can be streamed to [[Cloud Pub_Sub]] and [[BigQuery]]
- *Log viewer* build queries to search in the logs
- *Metrics editor* search metrics per application
- *Log router* to route logs to specific log sink. Like [[BigQuery]], [[Cloud Storage]], [[Cloud Pub_Sub]] and other destinations