The service automatically makes ingested log entries available for search and alerting in near real time, so that detection and response are not delayed.
The service can be configured to ingest custom log formats, including logs from on-premises systems or other cloud environments, through its collection agents.
The service may be configured to continuously route log data to a storage bucket, data warehouse, or messaging child resource within the same cloud provider.
The service may be configured to detect sensitive data such as personal information, credentials, or tokens in log entries at ingestion and mask or redact it before storage. Not every provider offers this natively (GCP Cloud Logging has no ingestion-time masking).