Select an existing Dataproc Metastore Google Cloud project.
Under the Resources menu, select Dataproc Metastore Service.
Under the All logs menu, select the log type that you want to
see.
gcloud
The Google Cloud CLI has a group of commands, gcloud logging, that provide a
command-line interface to the Cloud Logging API. To read your log entries,
run the following command:
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