google-cloud-logging Cookbook

This cookbook installs package for google cloud logging.It installs and starts the Google logging agent (google-fluentd).

This cookbook does the following:

1. Configures the required apt or yum repository. The environment variable REPO_SUFFIX can be set to alter which repository is used. A dash (-) will be inserted prior to the supplied suffix. Example values are 'unstable' or '20151027-1'.
2. Installs the logging agent.
3. Installs "catch-all" configuration files (unless the environment variable DO_NOT_INSTALL_CATCH_ALL_CONFIG is set to suppress this.)
4. Starts the logging agent.
5. Sends a test message which should be visible in the log viewer.

Google Cloud Logging collects and stores logs from applications and services on the Google Cloud Platform:

• View your logs with the Logs Viewer, including third-party logs from your virtual machine instances.
• Export your logs to Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, or Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
• Create logs-based metrics to use for monitoring and alerting in Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Get immutable audit logs for auditing and compliance.
• Use the Cloud Logging API to read, write, and configure logs.

Requirements

Platform

The platforms supported are Amazon Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, Redhat/CentOS

Packages

The cookbook uses default package managers for the platform

Attributes

None

License and Authors

Authors: Vipin Thomas, Karthik Subramanian