BigQuery for Data Warehousing: Managed Data Analysis in the Google Cloud

© Mark Mucchetti 2020

M. MucchettiBigQuery for Data Warehousinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6186-6_12

12. Cloud Logging

Mark Mucchetti¹ 

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Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

Google Cloud Logging, known until March 2020 as Stackdriver, is the central tool used to collect event logs from all of your systems. As with other systems we’ve discussed, it is fully managed and supports event collection at scale. It’s also directly integrated with all of the other services we’ve engaged with up until now: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and so forth.

In this chapter, we’ll look at how to import and analyze Cloud Logging logs in BigQuery and how to tie them together to gain system-wide understanding of how your applications are operating. On the flip side ...