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or other cloud backends zonal and hybrid neg migrate resources overview migrate to global external application load balancer roll back to classic application load balancer add capabilities traffic management overview create custom headers in backend services set up custom header and query parameter based routing set up url redirect set up http to https redirect set up url rewrite set up regional load balancer managed vm instance group backend cloud storage backend buckets cloud run backends serverless neg on premises or other cloud backends zonal and hybrid neg external backend internet neg add capabilities traffic management overview set up traffic management set up high availability set up http to https redirect set up a load balancer with backend service using shared vpc set up a load balancer with backend buckets using shared vpc create custom headers in url maps fail over to regional load balancers monitor and troubleshoot overview global load balancers regional load balancers troubleshooting best practices explore tutorials request routing to a multi region external https load balancer faster web performance and improved web protection for load balancing deliver http and https content over the same published domain optimize application latency with load balancing application capacity optimizations with global load balancing capacity management with load balancing internal load balancer architecture overview set up cross region load balancer managed vm instance group backend cloud storage backend buckets on premises or other cloud backends zonal and hybrid neg cloud run backends serverless neg set up regional load balancer terraform examples vm instance group backends cloud run backends serverless neg cloud storage backend buckets on premises or other cloud backends zonal and hybrid neg external backend internet neg add capabilities traffic management overview set up traffic management set up http to https redirect create custom headers in url maps set up regional internal load balancer with backend service using shared vpc set up cross region load balancer with backend buckets using shared vpc set up a regional internal application load balancer with backend buckets using shared vpc service directory registration load balancing and connected networks monitor and troubleshoot view logs and metrics troubleshooting convert load balancer to ipv6 use custom metrics load testing backends proxy network load balancer tcp ssl proxy overview external load balancer architecture overview set up global load balancer global ssl proxy with vm instance group backends global tcp proxy with vm instance group backends set up global load balancer classic terraform examples global ssl proxy with vm instance group backends global tcp proxy with vm instance group backends set up regional load balancer vm instance group backends zonal neg backends hybrid connectivity hybrid negs external backend internet neg internal load balancer architecture overview set up 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load balancer architecture overview traffic distribution concepts set up load balancer terraform examples vm instance group backends vm instance group backend for multiple protocols zonal neg backends add capabilities configure failover zonal affinity load balancers as next hops overview set up load balancing for third party appliances forwarding rules that use a common ip address service directory registration load balancing and connected networks explore tutorials set up load balancer as next hop with tags deploy a hub and spoke network set up a load balancer with internal ipv6 only backends monitor and troubleshoot view logs and metrics troubleshooting protocol forwarding overview set up protocol forwarding switch between a target instance and a backend service secure ssl certificates overview use self managed ssl certificates use google managed ssl certificates encryption to the backends troubleshooting ssl policies overview use ssl policies mutual tls frontend mtls overview set up frontend mtls with user provided certificates set up frontend mtls with a private ca backend mtls overview set up backend authenticated tls set up backend mtls backend mtls with managed workload identity overview set up backend mtls using managed workload identity post quantum tls authorization policies overview set up authorization policies customize load balancer advanced load balancing optimizations backend buckets backend services connection draining firewall rules forwarding rules health checks overview use health checks internal dns names ipv6 network endpoint groups overview hybrid connectivity negs internet negs serverless negs zonal negs overview set up zonal negs proxy only subnets tags target pools target proxies url maps overview use url maps url map size and quota units operate and maintain audit logging information health check logging information clean up a load balancer setup ai and ml application development application hosting compute data analytics and pipelines databases distributed hybrid and multicloud industry solutions migration networking observability and monitoring security storage access and resources management costs and usage management infrastructure as code sdk languages frameworks and tools home documentation networking load balancing guides send feedback external application load balancer logging and monitoring overview stay organized with collections save and categorize content based on your preferences this document provides you an overview about logs and metrics generated by external application load balancers to learn how to configure and use cloud logging and cloud monitoring list of metrics log record formats and other information refer to the following pages global external application load balancer and classic application load balancer logging and monitoring regional external application load balancer logging and monitoring monitoring features the following table indicates the monitoring features supported by external application load balancers feature external http s global classic regional http request count metrics info info info byte count metrics info info info round trip time rtt metrics info info request latency metrics info info info logging features the following table indicates the logging features supported by external application load balancers feature external http s global classic regional log type http request and response attribute logs info info info http request info info info log fields string which explains the proxy response statusdetails statusdetails proxystatus tls metadata between client and load balancer info info labels describing the load balancer resource info info info monitoring resources 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 external http s global classic regional logging monitored 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