Google Cloud Observability agents

Google Cloud Observability provides the following agents for collecting logs from Linux and Windows VM instances.

Which agent should you choose?

  • Ops Agent: The primary and preferred agent for collecting telemetry from your Compute Engine instances. This agent combines logging and metrics into a single agent, providing YAML-based configurations for collecting your logs and metrics, and features high-throughput logging. You can configure the Ops Agent to collect logs fromsupported third-party applications.
  • Legacy Logging agent: Streams logs from common third-party applications and system software to Cloud Logging. You can configure the agent to stream additional logs.

Note: There will be no new feature development or support for new operating systems for the legacy Logging agent. We recommend that you use theOps Agent for new workloads and eventually transition your existing VMs to use the Ops Agent.

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