Creating nested log entries in Cloud Logging Viewer from API?

Question

I'd like to publish logs from a custom app running on a compute engine to the cloud logging API.

However, I'd like to get nested logs (like AppEngine loglines). Is this possible through the api?

Answer 1

This use-case is explained in the AppEngline Logs docs.

Make sure to also set the traceId fields to non-null values on the request and app logs which you are sending. Here's sample code in Scala:

import com.google.cloud.MonitoredResource
import com.google.cloud.logging.Payload._
import com.google.cloud.logging._
import collection.JavaConverters._
import org.threeten.bp.Duration

val logging = LoggingOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService()
val traceId = "keasdfwxcbrbntpoiuwehrtiojsadf";

var firstEntry = {
  LogEntry.newBuilder(StringPayload.of("string-payload-one"))
    .setSeverity(Severity.DEBUG)
    .setLogName("app")
    .setTimestamp(1519955138399L)
    .setResource(MonitoredResource.newBuilder("global").build())
    .setLabels(Map("environment" -> "testing").asJava)
    .setTrace(traceId)
    .build()
}

var midEntry = {
  LogEntry.newBuilder(StringPayload.of("string-payload-two"))
    .setSeverity(Severity.INFO)
    .setLogName("request")
    .setResource(MonitoredResource.newBuilder("global").build())
    .setHttpRequest(HttpRequest.newBuilder().setStatus(200).setRequestUrl("/about-us").setLatency(Duration.ofMillis(1234)).build())
    .setTimestamp(1519955137906L)
    .setLabels(Map("environment" -> "testing").asJava)
    .setTrace(traceId)
    .build()
}

var lastEntry = {
  LogEntry.newBuilder(StringPayload.of("string-payload-three"))
    .setSeverity(Severity.DEBUG)
    .setLogName("app")
    .setResource(MonitoredResource.newBuilder("global").build())
    .setTimestamp(1519955138523L)
    .setLabels(Map("environment" -> "testing").asJava)
    .setTrace(traceId)
    .build()
}

logging.write(List(firstEntry, midEntry, lastEntry).asJava)

At the end, the log entries should show up both in their individual logs and "cross-logged" as children of their requests, like this: