Log group in Cloud Logging
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Updated at September 29, 2025
A log group is a way of grouping logs of services and custom messages. There are two types of groups:
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Default.
The name of the default log group is
default. The group is created automatically when a service or application writes logs with the folder ID specified for destination. A user can add records to it manually. If you create a log group nameddefault, it will be the default log group for the folder it was created in. -
Custom.
A user can create a log group and add records to it manually.
When adding a record to a log group, you can specify its creation timestamp. The record creation timestamp may differ from the time it was added to the log group. It must satisfy the following conditions:
Current date – 30 days < Record creation timestamp < Current date + 1 day
Services capable of logging in Cloud Logging
- API Gateway
- Application Load Balancer
- Audit Trails
- Cloud Functions
- Compute Cloud (collecting logs from VMs and user applications via Yandex Unified Agent)
- Container Registry
- DataSphere
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow™
- Managed Service for Greenplum®
- Managed Service for Kubernetes®
- Serverless Containers
- Serverless Integrations
- Yandex Cloud Postbox
- Yandex Cloud Notification Service
- Yandex Data Processing
- Yandex Data Streams
- Yandex IoT Core
- Yandex Managed Service for PostgreSQL