Searching PROD server logs in Google Cloud Logging
SkillSearchSearch Google Cloud (GKE) server logs of the PROD environment. Use when troubleshooting a production incident that needs the server side of the story — stream stalls, RPC peer changes / reconnects, watchdog closures, mesh/node churn, pod restarts — or when the user says "check PROD logs", "check production server logs", or gives a production timeline from a client console log.
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Then ask your AI: use the Searching PROD server logs in Google Cloud Logging skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by actual-chat/actual-chat in .claude/skills/gcloud-prod-logs/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Same query shapes, search terms, and method as the DEV skill — read
.claude/skills/gcloud-dev-logs/SKILL.md for the search-term table and workflow.
PROD differences:
- Project:
actual-chat-app-prod. The activegcloud configproject is usually the DEV one, so passing--project=actual-chat-app-prodexplicitly is mandatory. - App container filter is the same:
resource.labels.container_name="actual-chat-app". - PROD is read-only territory: only
gcloud logging read— never mutate anything (no config changes, no restarts) in this project.
Query template
gcloud logging read \
'resource.labels.container_name="actual-chat-app"
AND timestamp>="2026-07-22T05:12:00Z" AND timestamp<="2026-07-22T05:17:00Z"
AND textPayload:"<term>"' \
--project=actual-chat-app-prod \
--format='value(timestamp, textPayload)' \
--order=asc | head -80
Always bound timestamp on both ends (PROD volume is higher than DEV — unbounded
queries are slow and get truncated); start with a ±3-5 min window and widen only if
needed. Add resource.labels.pod_name to --format='value(...)' when multiple pods
matter.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 55
- Forks
- 10
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
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- skill
- Gateway key
gcloud-prod-logs- Source
- github.com/actual-chat/actual-chat