Set up log exports to BigQuery

Folgo for Google Chat is an AI-powered chat app that facilitates the use of Google Drive event logs stored in BigQuery for your Google Workspace domain. If someone has a question about any activities in Google Drive (e.g., "Has any external user been given access to content in this Shared Drive recently?"), they can simply ask the question via chat and will only receive answers based on the content they have access to. Folgo will check their access in Google Drive, translate their question into an SQL query, and retrieve the relevant information from BigQuery.

For the successful implementation of this process, it is imperative that the service log exports to BigQuery have been properly configured on your Google Workspace domain.

This feature is supported on various Google Workspace editions, including Frontline Standard, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus, as well as Enterprise Essentials Plus.

This informative article provides detailed instructions on how to set up the aforementioned configuration.

For further guidance and information, please refer to the official documentation provided by Google, accessible here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9079365?hl=en

Create Google Cloud Project and BigQuery Dataset

  1. In the Google Cloud Console, follow this link to create a new project
  2. Select a project name then click on Create

  1. Search for BigQuery in the Search bar and click on BigQuery

Connect BigQuery export

  1. In the Admin console, Go to Menu >  Reporting > BigQuery Export.
  2. Click on the BigQuery Export card and click Edit 

  1. Check the Enable Google Workspace data export to Google BigQuery box.

  1. Under BigQuery project ID, select the project where you want to store the logs. Choose your project.
  2. Under New dataset within project, enter the name of the dataset to use for storing the logs in the project.
  3. Click Save.

If you are unable to save the project, please navigate to the Google Cloud console and proceed to delete the new dataset. Subsequently, save the project again through the Admin console.

It may take up to 12 hours for the initial data to be delivered to BigQuery. Subsequently, the retrieval of information will be nearly instantaneous.

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