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Searching Google Cloud logs

• I was asked which users had looked at particular data in an app recently
• translation:
  • output a list of user emails
  • who made queries that included specific text in a specific query param
  • over the past two months
• show the query that accomplishes that
• show filters scoped to the relevant fields vs naked/unscoped filters at root level (can be handy, e.g. for unique strings like all logs relating to a particular request ID; though never necessary and probably slower than the equivalent field-specific syntax; just convenient when authoring one-off queries)
• show the output
• abstract the reusable takeaways