Cloud Engineer Cloud Monitoring, Logging & Observability 2

Question 1

Which tool in Google Cloud is best suited for identifying performance bottlenecks in distributed microservices by visualizing request latency across services?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Trace

Answer

Cloud Trace collects latency data from applications and displays distributed traces, allowing you to identify performance bottlenecks across microservices.

Question 2

A developer wants to be automatically notified when their application starts throwing a new type of exception in production. Which service provides this capability?

Accepted Answer

Error Reporting

Answer

Error Reporting aggregates and de-duplicates application errors and sends notifications when new error groups are detected in your application.

Question 3

You need to create a metric based on the count of log entries containing the word 'ERROR' in your application logs. What should you configure in Cloud Logging?

Accepted Answer

Log-based metric

Answer

Log-based metrics extract numeric values from log entries matching a filter and make them available as Cloud Monitoring metrics for alerting and dashboards.

Question 4

Which IAM role grants a user read-only access to view logs in Cloud Logging without allowing them to modify log sinks or exclusions?

Accepted Answer

roles/logging.viewer

Answer

The roles/logging.viewer role grants permission to view logs, log-based metrics, and logging configuration but not to modify them.

Question 5

A Cloud Monitoring alerting policy is configured with a condition duration of 5 minutes. What does this mean?

Accepted Answer

The alert fires only if the threshold is continuously exceeded for 5 minutes

Answer

The condition duration (also called the alignment period or 'for' window) requires the threshold to be continuously violated for the specified duration before the alerting policy fires.

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