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Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped provides operational logging capabilities to help
you manage your applications and services effectively. Operational logs capture
information about the conditions, changes, and actions occurring within your
deployments, letting developers and operators do the following:
Troubleshoot issues: Identify and diagnose errors or unexpected behavior
in your applications and infrastructure.
Monitor performance: Track resource usage, maintain a record of system
events, and optimize application performance.
This section helps to understand and query operational logs. Use this section
for reference when constructing
LogQL (Log Query Language)
expressions to search for operational logs. For more information, see
Query and view logs.
GDC collects operational logs for various resources,
including the following:
Kubernetes workloads: Logs are captured from the standard output
(stdout) and standard error (stderr) streams of your applications,
adhering to the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) logging format.
This practice ensures consistency and compatibility with Kubernetes' logging
tools and practices. For more information on this format, refer to the
official Kubernetes documentation:
https://github.com/kubernetes/design-proposals-archive/blob/main/node/kubelet-cri-logging.md.
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