Tail log entries

Demonstrates how to tail live log entries.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Streaming and live tailing log entries

Code sample

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Logging, see Logging client libraries.

To authenticate to Logging, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	logging "cloud.google.com/go/logging/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/logging/apiv2/loggingpb"
)

// tailLogs creates a channel to stream log entries that were recently ingested for a project
func tailLogs(projectID string) error {
	// projectID := "your_project_id"

	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := logging.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewClient error: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	stream, err := client.TailLogEntries(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("TailLogEntries error: %w", err)
	}
	defer stream.CloseSend()

	req := &loggingpb.TailLogEntriesRequest{
		ResourceNames: []string{
			"projects/" + projectID,
		},
	}
	if err := stream.Send(req); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("stream.Send error: %w", err)
	}

	// read and print two or more streamed log entries
	for counter := 0; counter < 2; {
		resp, err := stream.Recv()
		if err == io.EOF {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("stream.Recv error: %w", err)
		}
		fmt.Printf("received:\n%v\n", resp)
		if resp.Entries != nil {
			counter += len(resp.Entries)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Logging, see Logging client libraries.

To authenticate to Logging, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.cloud.logging.LogEntry;
import com.google.cloud.logging.LogEntryServerStream;
import com.google.cloud.logging.Logging;
import com.google.cloud.logging.Logging.TailOption;
import com.google.cloud.logging.LoggingOptions;

public class TailLogEntries {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Optionally provide the logname as an argument.
    String logName = args.length > 0 ? args[0] : "";

    LoggingOptions options = LoggingOptions.getDefaultInstance();
    try (Logging logging = options.getService()) {

      // Optionally compose a filter to tail log entries only from specific log
      LogEntryServerStream stream;

      if (logName != "") {
        stream =
            logging.tailLogEntries(
                TailOption.filter(
                    "logName=projects/" + options.getProjectId() + "/logs/" + logName));
      } else {
        stream = logging.tailLogEntries();
      }
      System.out.println("start streaming..");
      for (LogEntry log : stream) {
        System.out.println(log);
        // cancel infinite streaming after receiving first entry
        stream.cancel();
      }
    }
  }
}

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