"belltown" wrote:
... the free features of AppEngine don't include writing to local text files, and I didn't want to pay to use their database for that. Now I just manually peruse their log own entries to see what's going on, but I haven't set up any way of extracting that log data to put into my own database. Google's log data only goes back about a month, and I haven't downloaded and saved any of the earlier entries.
Aha! Been in your shoes, glad if i could help at least a little bit. GAE keeps last 3 months (default; possibly more if billing is set up):
appcfg.py request_logs --num_days=0 --application=myApp --version=v123 my-local-log-20160731.log
On a side note, the NoSQL datastore has some decent free quotas,
https://cloud.google.com/datastore/#pricing - not that there is reason to use it here.