Logging in Trusted Cloud versus Google Cloud

Cloud Logging is a real-time log-management system with storage, search, and analysis. Cloud Logging automatically collects log data from Trusted Cloud by S3NS resources. This page describes the differences between the Trusted Cloud and Google Cloud versions of Logging.

For more detailed information about Logging, see the Logging overview and the rest of the Logging documentation.

Key differences

There are some differences between the Trusted Cloud version of Logging and the Google Cloud version. Some notable differences include the following:

  • Log Analytics is unavailable.
  • Visualizing and monitoring log data is unavailable.

A more detailed list of differences is provided in the rest of this section. If you are already familiar with Google Cloud, we recommend that you review these differences carefully, particularly before designing an application to run on Trusted Cloud. We also recommend reviewing the general differences between Trusted Cloud and Google Cloud.

If you would like to use a particular Logging feature that isn't currently available in Trusted Cloud, contact Trusted Cloud support. To be notified when new features roll out in Trusted Cloud, subscribe to the release notes.

Workflows and tools

Cloud Audit Logs Available.
Collection of logs

Log data is collected from the following:

The following are unavailable:

  • Collecting log data by using the Ops Agent or the legacy Logging agent.
  • Collecting log data by using an open-source framework.
Configuration of default settings
(Applies only to organizations and folders)		 Available.
Creation of log buckets

The following features are available:

The following features are unavailable:

  • Creating a log bucket that is upgraded to use Log Analytics.
  • Upgrading a log bucket to use Log Analytics.
  • Configuring the data retention policy for a log bucket.
  • Creating a linked BigQuery dataset.
Creation of log sinks

Project-level log sinks and aggregated log sinks are available. The following sink destinations are available:

  • Trusted Cloud by S3NS project.
  • Log bucket.
  • Pub/Sub topic.

The following sink destinations are unavailable:

  • BigQuery datasets.
  • Cloud Storage buckets.
Creation of log scopes

The following features are unavailable:

  • Configuring a log scope by using the Trusted Cloud console.
  • Setting the default log scope is unavailable.
Creation of log views Available.
Custom indexing Unavailable.
Log Analytics Unavailable.
Logs Explorer

Available.

When Logs Explorer is integrated with a feature that is unavailable, the integration is disabled.
Log regionalization Available.
Retroactive log export Unavailable.
Visualization and monitoring of logs

The following features are unavailable:

  • Displaying log entries or a summary of log data on a dashboard.
  • Creating or visualizing log-based metrics.
  • Creating alerting policies that monitor a log-based metric or individual log entries.
  • Streaming and tailing log entries.

The following information might also affect how you use and design for Logging in Trusted Cloud by S3NS. These guides include general information about working in Trusted Cloud, including documentation, security and access control, billing, tooling, and service usage.

For details about other services and features in Trusted Cloud and their differences from their Google Cloud counterparts, see the product list.