Article Written by David Marshall
Enterprise users of Google's cloud platform have a new option for logging and monitoring network traffic for security and performance issues. Google introduced VPC Flow Logs to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), giving administrators a way to track network flows all the way down to an individual virtual interface, in near-real-time.
Enterprise users of Google's cloud platform have a new option for logging and monitoring network traffic for security and performance issues. Google introduced VPC Flow Logs to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), giving administrators a way to track network flows all the way down to an individual virtual interface, in near-real-time.
According to GCP Product Manager Ines Envid, VPC Flow Logs is like Cisco's NetFlow, "but with more features." It provides responsive flow-level network telemetry for GCP environments, creating logs in five-second intervals.
Organizations can use VPC Flow Logs to collect network telemetry at various levels and they can choose to collect telemetry for a particular VPC (virtual private cloud) network or subnet or drill down further to monitor a specific VM Instance or virtual interface.
