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title: "Google Cloud Storage permissions | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Google Cloud Storage permissions For configuration options, check the storage section on the configuration page. Permissions The following authentication methods are supported: GCP environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS 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 polices within the bucket:"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Google Cloud Storage permissions

For configuration options, check the storage section on the [configuration](./#storage) page.

## Permissions

The following authentication methods are supported:

- GCP environment variable `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`

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 polices within the bucket:

- `storage.objects.create`
- `storage.objects.delete`
- `storage.objects.get`
- `storage.buckets.get`