You are troubleshooting a Compute Engine VM that fails during boot. In the Logs Explorer you find an ERROR entry from the VM's serial-port output and open the log's JSON view to learn when the failure actually happened. Which top-level attribute in the expanded log record contains the original RFC 3339 date-time generated by the VM, regardless of when Cloud Logging ingested the entry?
In the JSON representation of every Cloud Logging entry, the "timestamp" field records the exact time the event occurred at the source, formatted in RFC 3339. "receiveTimestamp" is added later by Cloud Logging when the entry is received, "insertId" is a de-duplication token, and "logName" identifies the log resource. Therefore, the field you should rely on for the event's actual occurrence time is "timestamp".
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