I'm just viewing it as an option for getting consolidated logs from our GCP and GKE resources, mainly as a workaround to GKE discarding the docker container output rather quickly.
Something similar to, and for the same purposes one uses docker-compose logs [-f], kubectl logs [-f] or kubectl get events [-w] That is, a consolidated log event view of some *system* slice, of interest for ad-hoc discovery analysis. A concrete example that prompted my exploration of beta-logging and stackdriver is that logs in GKE vanish "quickly". From the stackdriver documentation it seems data is kept there for 30 days, which is sufficient for our need regarding verifying *changes* we make to *our* own components deployed on *your* hosted platform, behaves as expected at all levels. Also for answering question about events that happened outside the time-span of your GKE log retention policy. In short, to get hold of the consolidated logs that are a week or a couple old. We use ELK elsewhere, but nothing beats having a CLI that easily facilitates ad-hoc exploration using "grep, perl, custom scripts etc", using plain log files (or unix streams), something that's also familiar to all developers in the company (no new web UI to learn). Also, Google deploys its version of k8s configured with stackdriver as the default log target, so it seemed appropriate to try leveraging that log store and its tools rather than setting up some other infrastructure for the same purpose, stuff which would then need to be maintained *by us* (cost and complexity). Path of least resistance it seemed. I'd be glad to hear of other options, and especially for which purpose the gcloud logging feature was created (the main use cases you envisioned*).* On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:27:21 UTC+2, Nicholas (Google Cloud Support) wrote: > > For what purpose are you using the gcloud beta logging component parsing > logs? Perhaps, understanding more about your use case, we may be able to > suggest a more tailored solution for your goals. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/6b3b38ac-8fe6-4043-8b1f-1fb498e5ecc9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
