How to delete logs on Google App Engine?

Question

I misconfigured a deployment to GAE (the 'Flexible' varient), and let it run for a couple of weeks. I had NOT made a route for _ah/health and it got pinged every four seconds by the GAE infra - causing exceptions to hit the logs courtesy of the web framework. Logs filled to 35GB which is where they sit today, after I made a route for the underdocumented healthcheck route. I can't find anything in the UI to allow me to delete those logs.

https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/ is the main place for viewing logs, but there's no clue within as to how to delete them.

user_472084 · Answer

There is now a way to do this via the CLI:

gcloud logging logs delete log-name

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/logging/logs/delete

user_276093 · Answer

You can delete app engine logs using the api. See https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest/v2/projects.logs/delete for details, but there's also a "try this API" section on the right to actually execute it.

Pass in a logName something like: "projects/[PROJECT_ID]/logs/appengine.googleapis.com%2Frequest_log"

You can also just list the logs with this endpoint: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest/v2/projects.logs/list

How to delete logs on Google App Engine?

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