External Application Load Balancer logging and monitoring overview
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This document provides you an overview about logs and metrics generated by
external Application Load Balancers.
To learn how to configure and useCloud LoggingandCloud Monitoring, list of metrics, log record formats,
and other information, refer to the following pages:
The monitoring resources for global external Application Load Balancer and
classic Application Load Balancer are the same. The following table specifies the
resource names for external Application Load Balancers in each mode:
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