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id: google-cloud-logging
version: "3.16.2"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-logging — Google Cloud Logging API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-cloud-logging
uv add google-cloud-logging
poetry add google-cloud-logging

## Description

Python Client for Cloud Logging
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`Cloud Logging`_: Writes log entries and manages your Cloud Logging configuration.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

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   :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-logging/
.. _Cloud Logging: https://cloud.google.com/logging/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/logging/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/logging/

Quick Start
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In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable billing for your project.`_
3. `Enable the Cloud Logging.`_
4. `Set up Authentication.`_

.. _Select or create a...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Writes log entries to Google Cloud Logging and manages Cloud Logging configuration from Python applications. Integrates with standard Python logging to send structured logs to Google Cloud Platform.

Verdict: Production-ready, actively maintained Google Cloud client library with no known vulnerabilities. Low install friction, permissive licensing, and broad Python version support (3.10–3.14) make it a solid choice for applications that need to send logs to GCP. The 10-package dependency tree is typical for Google Cloud clients and poses no unusual risk.

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