Setting up Cloud Logging

One of the first tasks to complete is to properly set up Cloud Logging in our cloud project. This will make it possible for any service and application running on this project to send logging events that will be centralized in Cloud Logging (https://cloud.google.com/logging), where we will be able to filter and display a specific list of events whenever we need them.

Cloud Logging, part of the Google Cloud operations suite (https://cloud.google.com/products/operations), formerly known as Stackdriver, is a managed real-time logging service that allows us to store, search, and analyze our logs and set up alerts when certain events are received. Logs can be stored in regional log buckets, and inclusion and exclusion filters can be set up to decide which events we want to capture. Cloud Logging not only includes events generated by our code and by cloud platform components but also audit-related messages to help us gain visibility about who did what, when, and...