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Google Cloud Storage
For configuration options, check the storage section on the configuration page.
Permissions
The following authentication methods are supported:
- Google Cloud Platform environment variable
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS - Google Cloud Platform Workload Identity
The (service-)account that will communicate towards GCS should be assigned to the bucket which will receive the traces and should have the following IAM policies within the bucket:
storage.objects.createstorage.objects.deletestorage.objects.getstorage.buckets.getstorage.objects.list
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