Is it possible to create sink with timestamp filter condition to get old logs of particular period

[jurdy george]

Hi 

We need to get old logs of a particular period from stack driver to Pub/Sub topic. 

Is it possible to provide timestamp based filter conditions in sink and get the old log data in pub/sub topic. 

I created a sink with filter timestamp > [start date] AND timestamp < [end date] but no logs are appearing in topic when pulling with subscription. 

thanks,

Jurdy

[Nicholas Elkaim]

Hi Jurdy,

Logging sinks only take into account new logs written to Logging (or not written in this case). As a log comes in, it considers if it should be written to logging or if it should be exported to a sink destination, and if the log matches the sink filter then it is written to the destination instead of Logging. A sink will not work on older logs. 

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export