# Google Cloud Logging Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Log Analysis Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/log-analysis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 37
## About Google Cloud Logging
For applications running on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.




## Google Cloud Logging Reviews
  ### 1. Good logging tool to debug errors easily

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kishore K. | Associate Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

We are using Google cloud logging for debugging the production issue. It provides better user experience to filter the logs those were happened at a particular time. 
Cloud logging enable us to create a custom dashboard so that we can create dashboards which are specific to our application. We can view the logs and create log alert from on-prem server by installing ops agent.  
We using this cloud logging tool daily to triage the issues.
Anyone who has basic knowledge on monitoring and logging can easily start using the Google cloud logging.

We can easily store the logs by integrating with cloud storage and it's very easily to implement this logging tool in real time projects .

We can refer to Google documentation for creating the dashboard .
Google customer support also provide better assistance to help to resolve the issues.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

When we try to search for the complex logs, response time is slow

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's helpful to debug the logs which help us to triage the issues

  ### 2. great tool to browse logs on your k8s applications

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Irepan C. | Sr Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

it is quick to find some problems despite of which is the container that throw it

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

sometimes you need to scrap to text file when the text payload is divided to several lines hard to understand in the browser

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

solving outages on our k8s clusters

  ### 3. Free logging, anytime, anywhere.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It is easy to analyze logs in mobile with its dedicated app 'Google Cloud'.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It is hard to search logs due to its own query system, consisted in IF and Regex.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My service runs in CLI and logs in terminal. There was no way to save logs with no payment but Google cloud's powerful logging system helped me solve the problem.

  ### 4. Analysis and Monitoring

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Neha V. | Data Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Their analysis and monitoring capabilities. It is very ease to use and implement. Also whenever their are problems the customer support is very quick to help us out. It is very easy for us to generate insights using google cloud logging.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

The number of API logging quotas are low. So at times it gives errorrs

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is saving the overhead to manage and analyse the logs. Earlier we had to manually process all of this but now it is very streamlined because of google cloud logging

  ### 5. Google cloud logging GUI console

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Satish P. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

To provide user friendly console so that user can put filter service or severity wise to check error of function and search any string or keyword into capture logs

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Google not provide any tutorials or documentation for how to write custom queries for google logging

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We can track or capture of events, transaction which is doing in google cloud ecosystem. If any unknown event or activity is occurred so we can easily identify with google cloud logging and take appropriate action on that

  ### 6. Fantastic and user friendly

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abhishek T. | Lead Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Impressed with the simplicity and power of Google Cloud Logging. It's user-friendly yet offers advanced features for in-depth log analysis. The ability to store logs centrally and retrieve them effortlessly has significantly improved our operational efficiency

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It's very easy to use for developers. But it should have good doc for begineers

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

To majntain logs of the application

  ### 7. A logging software for GCP platform

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Syed Basheer A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

As GCP is not quite that popular than AWS and Azure there is no best logging software for it, but finally we have this Google Cloud Logging 
this is highly recommended for GCP users ,it has various features for effective logging

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Nothing specific. it is one of the best services out there.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Logging for incident alerts

  ### 8. Worth to know Google cloud login feature

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Salwad basha S. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The ease of integration with the services are very much impressed about Google cloud logging.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I did not find particularly but better to add some better UI experience and increase response time.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It increase the security of the services that I am integrating

  ### 9. Great way for compute engine status

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** chandrahaas v. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Google manages loging for you for eg : if your are gks goole uses fluent bit for logging and makes it super useful

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

A bit on costly side but very useful if you can't maintain plg stack

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Logging and log analysis

  ### 10. Google Cloud logging

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sourav D. | Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2023

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The search and the query language are pretty good for a logging service

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Nothing specific. it is one of the best services out there.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I mostly use it for technical issues or production level issues

  ### 11. Its amazing experience works smoothly and my friends are also have great experience.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arvind Y. | Sumans store, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Its very secure our data is secure here.its trusted cloud and I recommend to everyone to use it

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

All is good nothing any thing like dislike

Easy to use
Customer support

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Make my work easier.very beneficial

  ### 12. Storing and analyzing

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nayana S. | Cloud Support Engineer 2, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It stores many data which are helpful
Analyzing the data and events from Google Cloud
Quickly resolve issues

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Difficulties with the custom role changes.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Analyzing the data

  ### 13. Google Cloud Logging

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Amrit M. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Unified Logging
Scalability
Real-time Log Streaming
Alerting and Monitoring

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Pricing Complexity
Limited Query Language
Learning Curve

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Centralized Log Management
Visibility and Monitoring

  ### 14. Google cloud logging

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vijay T. | Full-stack Developer Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2023

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

We can easily capture all the logs in our app such as errors warning and request response msg which we require for debugging our app in future.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Issue is with the UI is sometimes difficult to operate difficult to learn other than that its awesome.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helps in storing and retrieving ours logs in our app which is required for debugging and backtracking.

  ### 15. GCL is a decent alternative to rolling out and operating an EFK stack

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nicolas E. | Lead Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The integration with google services such as Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, GKE is top notch.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I would like to be able to use GCL with services which aren't currently hosted on Google Cloud (on-prem Kubernetes clusters, on-prem Knative deployments for security reasons etc.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Mostly root cause analysis, to be able to diagnose problems which occur rarely but have an impact in which case logging is indispensable.

  ### 16. all the logs are captured although order of logs is not guaranteed

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

all the logs are captured so we can build the apps logs and trace the errors or requests

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

although we can trace all the logs, the order of logs is not in the order they are generated always,

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

we are able to see all the requests and traces in one platform

  ### 17. Google Cloud Stackdriver Logging provides ready-to-use logging for any infrastructure in the cloud

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cameron G. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Google Cloud Logging has connectors to many of the tools on GCP making it is easy to get started with.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

One thing I don't like is the difficulty of using the new logging UI. It is clearly more capable than the old UI but harder to use and understand.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Logging is an essential part of the SDLC and is necessary for many things, including debugging. It has worked well for our debugging purposes.

  ### 18. Good logging/debugging  tool for GCP services.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** ChinnapaReddy K. | Microsoft Student Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

We can easily query based on the time and filter type [ level of the log]  to find specific logs & we can also filter types like Container, Load Balancer, Compute, etc. easy to filter.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

No issues in my case & I have not found anything that I dislike ye.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Observability & we get access to logs, metrics, traces,from gcp infrastructure.

We can easily check & monitor services in infrastructure.

  ### 19. The easiest way to see everything going on in your gcp project

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Raymond B. | Associate Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The thing I like the best is the resource overview and highly configurable dashboard. It's easy find the information that is most important and relevant to your business use case.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I wish the website wasn't so slow. Sometimes it takes several seconds to load and even then it can be sluggish when changing different settings or navigating from page to page.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Main thing is having a good plus on how much resources our projects are using. This helps us save money and decide when it may be time to rework an application to be less resource intensive.

  ### 20. Easy to use GCP Logging that lacks some features

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Stephen G. | Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Easy to use, automatically enables highly verbose logging, effortless scaling that seems to be able to handle anything that is thrown at it

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Hard to move logs outside of the platform, more focused on custom application logging than login GCP API calls, built-in dashboards don't provide much value

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

Integrate into another product to get maximum value

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Needed security monitoring of all GCP API calls being made. Stackdriver is the only way to get that coverage. This monitoring gives confidence in the security of the GCP account

  ### 21. Best Debugging tool.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arsh P. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The stackdriver is really easy to use. You can query on the time and the critical level of the log to find specific logs. This really helps while testing to see whether your application is working as expected or not. The Stackdriver logging can also help in knowing exactly where the bug occurred in your source code. It also holds the execution trail which helps in debugging. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It takes a bit of learning curve to understand how to exactly use it. Pubsub logging can be annoying as it will keep retrying due to the nature of pubsub.   

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

Go for it. It's the best once you learn how to use it. 

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

You can log the execution trace for each application and each component in it. This helps a lot in debugging. 

  ### 22. Easy logging and analytics

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Seth E. | Seth Eckhart, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The thing I like most about this is that its part of the stackdriver suite by Google. The logs can be analyzed in real time. I use this program for real-time debugging and the ability to search across multiple logs is so useful. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Pricing seems a little too high for a program like this but besides that no real complaints. Great program for debugging a problem where you need to get through multiple logs

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

None, use this if you need to speed up logging and debugging

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Speeding up searching through multiple logs. It saves lots of time.

  ### 23. Easy way to quickly search multiple logs in real time.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Being able to search logs in real time is extremely helpful. The ability to search across multiple logs at the same and a very powerful filtering feature it makes it so much more convenient than logging into the server and digging through all of those files manually. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

No complaints. It works really well and it's a great starting point when debugging a problem where you need to sift through multiple logs. 

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

Give it a try. It's a fast and helpful solution to the tedious task of digging through log files.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The biggest benefit for me has been the speed of searching across multiple logs on our web server using the filtering feature without needing to get nitty gritty at the command line.

  ### 24. I love GC Logs

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Le “Grace” H. | Co-Founder and CTO, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It has been very easy for real-time debugging. Grepping results are very easy. Keywords, or setting time window are very helpful for locating the logs. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It has met all my requirements. One thing I would complain that is, it does not differentiate NodeJS errors from warnings. It all shows errors.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Debugging realtime issues with servers.

  ### 25. Great software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ina C. | Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It's an amazing platform to use for logging and analyzing data!! It is a fully managed service which is pretty convenient.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

You need to be using Google Cloud to be able to use the functionalities of Google Stackdriver Logging or AWS. Not very easy to use with different platforms.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use it to log and analyze data and events from GCP. It helps monitor everything.

  ### 26. High Availability

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It helps to identify the most critical bugs. You can also log them and find the location of the error. Everything happens on cloud so there's very less overhead or space availability issues. It is highly underrated and all you need is a Gmail account. It's that simple.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It's not all too clear on how to use it initially. It takes time to understand the functionality of the software, after which the working becomes a cakewalk.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has less downtime, which is very important while working on real data. This is ensured by the cloud management.

  ### 27. Real-time logging and analytics

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The logs can be analyzed in real time. I can implement some changes on my website, test it, and immediately see the results in logs. Very reliable, I did not have any issues with Stackdriver in 2 years I've been using it. You can also write custom logs.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I don't see any issues with Stackdriver.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have a website hosted on Google AppEngine and I use Stackdrived to store custom logs with information on users' behavior.

  ### 28. Stackdriver Logging Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Extracting data was issue from this platform with any basic SQL querying. Our team was able to pull reports easily whenever asked. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Integrating third party functions to the platform was difficult for our team, but looked to Google support services for guidance and was helped.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We had brought this on for having accessibility to cloud based data in a way that can be extracted on basic calls. It made things easy to access and affordable as well for inventory analyses.

  ### 29. Best consolidated logger ever

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

previously, all the consolidated logging services cost arms and legs and stackdriver does this in very reasonable pricing.  Not only that it is very cheap, it is very easy to configure as it can take outputs from stdio straight into the stackdriver and you can filter and parse json objects.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I don't have any particular problems with it as it does what I asks for.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

all our hundreds of microservice logs goes straight into stackdriver

  ### 30. Great

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

What I like the best about Google Stackdriver is that it can work with multiple crowds and infrastructure that is on site. 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

I have not found anything that I dislike yet. 

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are now getting a complete view. we get access to logs, metrics, traces, and other signals from our infrastructure platforms and virtual amchines and we are able to track all of our issues from our end user to our backend services. 

  ### 31. Google Stackdriver Delivers!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrew L. | President , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

Monitoring and management for services, containers, applications, and infrastructure.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

The cost of the product does not always reflect the worth!

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It allows me to monitor everything for my corporation! 

  ### 32. Clean UI To Find Lines Of Crashes

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

I like how easy it is to be able to find errors I am looking for if any users I have are experiencing crashes

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Maybe breaking down cloud logs further with different filters such as better time frames/by user

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

being able to quickly find lines of errors when a user crashes so we can quickly build a fix and release

  ### 33. Satisfactory experience 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It gives real time analytics and helps process information quicker. It saves employees time and add to productivity 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Its a premium service and is paid, hence difficult for smaller set ups 

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

All cloud is in one place which is a huge advantage. It also helps in real time analytics which has worked wonders for my time 

  ### 34. Had a hard time get it to work right

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

I like to fact that it is part of the Stackdriver suite. I like the search capabilities it offers, sufficient enough for me to find out the info I needed from the data lake.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Not flexible enough to have a tiered like structure to group logs. Also not being able to run cross queries across different types of logs in painful at times.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Incident investigation and post mortems. Analytics on logs to capture business insights.

  ### 35. Stackdriver Logging review for admissions office

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

How easy the Google Stackdriver logging software was to implement 

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

Sometimes the Google Stackdriver logging software would malfunction and tech would have to fix it

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

N/A

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scheduling problems and managing employee times and hours 

  ### 36. Google Stackdriver monitoring is an easy to use and effective tool.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

The simplicity and built-in functionality of Stackdriver monitoring makes it a very useful tool for Google cloud application monitoring. Stackdriver Logging enables you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and get alerts on log data.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

The documentation could be better. The pricing seems a little high as well. 

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Having a built-in logging system on Google solves the problem of having to implement your own on their platform.

  ### 37. Great logging backed by Google's support

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Cloud Logging?**

It has a clean interface that matches all of Google's other set of suites, and allows expanding a single log pretty intuitively.

**What do you dislike about Google Cloud Logging?**

It's kind of hard narrowing it down to a certain timeframe. Unlike Google's Analytics where you could select certain dates easily, this has a bit of less feature, and is a bit more difficult narrowing it down to what you may be looking for.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Logging:**

If you aren't using AWS and is using GCP, this is it.

**What problems is Google Cloud Logging solving and how is that benefiting you?**

To make sure nothing is failing, and if so, to be able to discover the issue quickly and resolve.


## Google Cloud Logging Discussions
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## Google Cloud Logging Features
**Data Preparation**
- Data Sources
- Indexing
- Automated Tagging
- Data Blending

**Analysis**
- Track Trends
- Detect Anomalies
- Metric and Event Data
- Search
- Alerts
- Live Tail

**Visualization**
- Dashboards
- Data Discovery

**Agentic AI - Log Analysis**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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