Viewing log group monitoring charts
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Updated at June 3, 2025
You can monitor how records are added to a log group with the monitoring tools in the management console. These tools display diagnostic information as charts.
The chart update period is 15 seconds.
Viewing monitoring charts
Management console
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In the management console, select the folder with the log group.
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Select Cloud Logging.
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Select the log group whose monitoring charts you want to view.
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Navigate to the Monitoring tab.
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The following charts will appear on the page:
- Records successfully ingested: Number of records delivered to the Cloud Logging system. This only includes user logs.
- Records saved: Number of records saved to the Cloud Logging system. This includes both service and user logs.
- Records read: Number of records read.
- Records ingest errors: Number of errors when adding records.
- Records save lag: Difference between the time of record delivery and its saving to the Cloud Logging system.
- Records read errors: Number of read errors.
- Ingest requests: Number of successful API requests to deliver logs to the system.
- Ingest requests errors: Number of failed API requests to deliver logs to the system.
- Ingest requests duration: Duration of API requests to deliver logs to the system.
You can select a time period for which you want to display information on the graph. It can be an hour, three hours, a day, a week, a month, or a custom interval.