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A retail company uses Google Cloud for its e-commerce platform. During peak shopping seasons, they experience significant traffic spikes, which sometimes lead to performance degradation. They want to proactively monitor their application's health, identify performance bottlenecks, and receive alerts before issues impact customers. Which Google Cloud operations product is best suited for this requirement?
- ACloud Monitoring
- BCloud Trace
- CCloud Audit Logs
- DCloud Logging
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: A. Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud and custom applications, enabling users to create dashboards, charts, and alerts based on specific thresholds to proactively identify and address performance issues.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Cloud Trace tracks and analyzes latency of requests across microservices, useful for debugging, but Cloud Monitoring provides broader system health and alerting.
- C. Cloud Audit Logs record administrative activities and data access, not application performance metrics.
- D. Cloud Logging is for collecting and analyzing log data, not primarily for real-time metric-based alerting on performance degradation.
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring collects and visualizes metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, and application instrumentation.
- Provides dashboards and charts for data visualization.
- Enables setting up alerts based on metric thresholds.
- Integrates with various Google Cloud services for comprehensive insights.
Memory trick: Logs Trace Monitored Audits.