Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Monitoring lifecycle events

Being able to automate lifecycle management is great, but there's often a need to keep track of these changes or take some additional action when a lifecycle event occurs. For transparency and diagnostics, all lifecycle events are logged in the project's Cloud Storage access logs. To view access logs within the Cloud Console, navigate to Navigation menu | Logging, and select GCS Bucket followed by [ your bucket name ] in the resources drop-down menu. In addition to logging lifecycle events, Cloud Storage supports Cloud Pub/Sub Notifications, which can be used for both monitoring and integrations with other systems.