What are BigQuery audit logs supposed to produce?

Question

I have been looking at the new BigQuery Logging feature in the Cloud Platform Console, but it seems a bit inconsistent in what is being logging.

I can see some creates, deletes, inserts and queries. However, when I did a few queries and copy jobs through the web UI they do not show up.

1. Should activity in the BigQuery web UI also be logged?
   
2. Does it differ from where the request comes from, eg. console or API access?

Answer 1

There is no difference between console or API access. An activity in the BigQuery web UI should be logged.

Are you using Cloud Log viewer to view these logs? In some cases, there might be a few secs delay when these logs show up in the log viewer. And you might have to refresh the logs.