[cloud functions for firebase manager] I understand that the decision to shuffle users to GCP for logs was controversial. It wasn’t decided, as some have said here, because some director had an OKR to fluff up; it was because our UX team couldn’t keep up with the sheer amount of innovation in GCP’s observability suite. Check out Daniel Lee’s talk next Tuesday on observability and cloud functions for firebase for some cool tricks. Did you know, for example, that you can jump into the trace for a log line in GCP? That you can create custom metrics with alerts? That you can filter by structured log segments?

I think a tutorial could smooth over the transition, but I think this decision was for the best. If you want a super simple logs reader for in-the-moment analysis, try the CLI command “firebase functions:logs”