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| author | Vincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in> | 2019-02-04T15·18+0100 |
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| committer | Vincent Ambo <github@tazj.in> | 2019-02-04T15·31+0100 |
| commit | 1942ec574fe298e62f853955f2b4e5e89dc7de06 (patch) | |
| tree | e2efd596efb5085b2276d7c871d197b2cbfe9bab | |
| parent | 6d2a8adacc223f9eb7c607b5b0408fd5e8a60e7f (diff) | |
docs: Mention `global` log stream value in README
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 975406d4c9da..4dc9de0f617b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -129,9 +129,15 @@ log entries. To use this functionality log messages must be logged in the expected [log format][]. -*Note*: Currently errors logged from non-GCP instances are not -ingested into Error Reporting. Please see [issue #4][] for more -information about this. +*Note*: Reporting errors from non-GCP instances requires that the +`LOG_STREAM` environment variable is set to the special value +`global`. + +This value changes the monitored resource descriptor from a log stream +to the project-global stream. Due to a limitation in Stackdriver Error +Reporting, this is the only way to correctly ingest errors from +non-GCP machines. Please see [issue #4][] for more information about +this. [Stackdriver Logging]: https://cloud.google.com/logging/ [metadata server]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata |