What should you confirm if your application's logs are not appearing on Cloud's operations suite dashboard?

To ensure that application logs are appearing on Cloud's operations suite dashboard, confirming that the Cloud agent has been installed in the hosting virtual machine is crucial because the Cloud agent is responsible for collecting and sending logs to the operations suite. Without this agent, there would be no mechanism to gather and transmit the application's logs, resulting in their absence from the dashboard.

The Cloud agent serves as a connection between your application and Google Cloud's logging services. It is essential for monitoring, logging, and resource management, thereby making it a critical component for ensuring that logs are visible and accessible. If the agent is missing or not functioning properly, the application logs cannot be collected, meaning they will not appear in the dashboard as expected.

While permissions, firewall settings, and client libraries are important aspects of configuring a cloud application, they do not specifically address the capability to collect and send logs to the operations suite. Therefore, the installation of the Cloud agent is the first line of action to resolve issues related to log visibility on the dashboard.