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Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems

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Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems

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- Configuring log sinks to export logs to external systems. So an important concept to know of is a cloud logging sinks. So this is when you want to route certain logs, certain types of logs to different locations, and that routing behaviors basically controlled with inclusion features or exclusion features. So an example here would be to have, for example, your cloud audit logs go to maybe BigQuery or Cloud Storage and maybe some other types of logs can go to Pop/Sub from which some third party tool like Splunk or whatever is going to pull those logs from. So those are the three possible destinations, Cloud Storage, BigQuery or Pop/Sub. And when you have Pop/Sub you can basically integrate that with just about anything. So you have a lot of flexibility here. How do you create a sink? You go to cloud logging and then log router and create a sink. And here you configure things like the destination. First of all, in this example here we have a cloud storage bucket and which is the logs…

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