GCP Google Cloud Platform - Log Analytics

Step-01: Introduction¶

Learn to use Log Analytics

Step-02: Generate Traffic¶

# Generate Traffic in a while loop in Cloud shell
while true; do curl http://EXTERNAL-IP; sleep 1; done
while true; do curl http://34.29.5.200; sleep 1; done

Step-03: Log Analytics Query¶

Go to Cloud Logging -> Explore -> Log Analytics

# Log Analytics Query
SELECT
  *
FROM
  `gcplearn9.global.mylogbucket101._AllLogs`
LIMIT 10000

Step-04: Create Cloud Big Query Dataset¶

Go to Cloud Logging -> Configure -> Log Storage -> mylogbucket101 -> Edit
Create a new BigQuery dataset that links to this bucket: CHECK IT
BigQuery Dataset Name: mylogbucket101ds1
Click on Update Bucket

Step-05: Cloud Big Query¶

Go to Cloud BigQuery

# Query
SELECT * FROM `gcplearn9.mylogbucket101._AllLogs` LIMIT 1000

Step-06: Clean-Up¶

# Delete VMs
gcloud compute instances delete myvm1 --zone=us-central1-a

# Delete Log Sink
Go to -> Cloud Logging -> Configure -> Log Router -> mysink1 -> Delete sink

# Delete Log Storage
Go to -> Cloud Logging -> Configure -> Log Storage -> mylogbucket101 -> Delete Bucket 

# Delete BigQuery Datasets
Go to -> BigQuery -> myvmlogs -> Delete

# Delete Alert Policies
Go to -> Cloud Logging -> Detect -> Alerting -> Policies -> DELETE ALL POLICIES