traces/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/hosted-storage/gcs.md

title, description, aliases

title	description	aliases
Google Cloud Storage	Learn about Google Cloud Storage permissions for Tempo.	../../configuration/gcs/

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.create
• storage.objects.delete
• storage.objects.get
• storage.buckets.get
• storage.objects.list