# Log aggregation

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Observability area: Logs, metrics, traces, alerts.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/log-aggregation

Ship logs from every instance to a central store where they can be searched and correlated by request ID.

Usually comes after: [Structured logging](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/structured-logging).

Leads to: [Browser error reporting](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/browser-errors).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Configure log shipping from all running instances to a central log store, with retention settings and a saved query that follows a single request by its correlation ID.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt