How to get output of STDOUT to GCP cloud logging

Question

Hey I have a job running on a gcp VM where some imported libraries are logging to stdout with the print or python logging library, and I also have written a lot of code where the output is logged to stdout with the python logging library (e.g. logging.info("*** INFO ***") ). I'm running into an issue where the logs are printing to STDOUT but not sent to GCP cloud logging. I have tried so many things such as installing the logging agent on the VM, going through a bunch of GCP docs, using deprecated logging libraries, etc, but nothing has worked. Here are some examples:

gcp_log_example.py - The 'HI' log get sent to GCP cloud logging but none of the logs in builtin_logger.py. This is why I cannot use this approach.

import subprocess
import google.cloud.logging
import logging

client = google.cloud.logging.Client()
client.setup_logging()
logging.info('HI')

subprocess.run('python3 builtin_logger.py', shell=True)

^^ I will not use this approach because I'm pretty sure it requires me to go through every library and integrate GCP logging. No way anyone is going to do that.

builtin_logger.py

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
print('*** print! ***')
logging.info('*** INFO! ***')
logging.warning('*** WARNING! ***')
logging.critical('*** CRITICAL! ***')
sys.stdout.flush()

^ These logs get sent to stdout but are not sent to GCP.

I've also tried running it like this but in this case the severity level is not captured but the logs are sent to GCP cloud logging (twice though --- the logs are duplicated)

tmp.sh

#!/bin/bash

python3 builtin_log.py 2>&1 | logger -t "builtin_log.py"

#!/bin/bash

sudo docker-compose up --build | logger 2>&1

^ this is basically what I want but the only problem with this is it doesn't capture the severity.

tl;dr: I need to get logs from STDOUT on GCP VM sent to GCP cloud logging. Is this even the right approach?

Help is greatly appreciated, thanks!