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title: GKE clusters should have monitoring and logging enabled
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# GKE clusters should have monitoring and logging enabled
 
## Description{% #description %}

This control validates the configuration of logging and monitoring on GKE Clusters. Exporting logs and metrics to a dedicated, persistent datastore such as Cloud Operations for GKE ensures availability of audit data following a cluster security event, and provides a central location for analysis of log and metric data collected from multiple sources.

## Remediation{% #remediation %}

To enable audit logs for your GKE cluster, see [Observability for GKE](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/observability).