Enabling Google Cloud Logging

Question

From the Google Docs: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/install/compute_install#enable_the_google_cloud_logging_api

You must enable the Google Cloud Logging API for your project:

Navigate to the Developers Console UI and select your project

Select APIs & auth > APIs in the sidebar on the left.

Type "logging" in the search box under Browse APIs

Toggle the status button from OFF to ON to enable the Google Cloud Logging API.

When I go to my API console I don't see any option related to Google Cloud Logging API. If I try to write to my logs from a GCE instance gcloud preview logging write test hello, I get a 403 error:

ERROR: (gcloud.preview.logging.write) ResponseError: status=403, code=Forbidden, message=Project has not enabled the API. Please use Google Developers Console to activate the API for your project.

This instance does have write permission for Cloud Logging.

How am I supposed to enable the Cloud Logging API?

Answer 1

Google Cloud Logging API is still an Alpha release and your project must be white listed before using it first. See the header at the documentation page:

Alpha This is an Alpha release of Google Cloud Logging for Google Compute Engine. This API might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not recommended for production use. It is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy. Request to be whitelisted to use this feature.