Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Question 250
Select 3Google Cloud PlatformYour team is responsible for managing a critical production application on Google Cloud. You need to ensure that the system's performance is monitored effectively, and you receive timely alerts to address potential issues before they impact users. Which of the following actions should you take to achieve this?
- A
Create custom dashboards in Cloud Monitoring to display key metrics for the application.
- B
Set up alerting policies with appropriate conditions and notification channels in Cloud Monitoring.
- C
Rely solely on default dashboards and avoid creating custom alerts to reduce maintenance overhead.
- D
Use uptime checks to monitor the availability of your application and integrate them into alerting policies.
- E
Set up alerts for every possible metric in the system to ensure no potential issue is missed.
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
To effectively manage dashboards and alerts for a production application, it is essential to create custom dashboards tailored to your application's needs, set up alerting policies with appropriate conditions and notifications, and use uptime checks for availability monitoring. Avoid excessive alerting to prevent alert fatigue and do not rely solely on default dashboards, as they may not provide the level of insight required for your specific application.
- A. Correct.
Creating custom dashboards in Cloud Monitoring allows you to visualize the most important metrics for your application, enabling better monitoring of its performance.
- B. Correct.
Setting up alerting policies with appropriate conditions and notification channels ensures your team is notified promptly about critical issues, helping you address them proactively.
- C. Incorrect.
Relying solely on default dashboards might lead to missing critical metrics specific to your application, and the lack of custom alerts can delay issue detection.
- D. Correct.
Uptime checks are a fundamental component of monitoring availability, and integrating them into alerting policies ensures you are notified when critical services are down.
- E. Incorrect.
Setting up alerts for every metric can lead to alert fatigue, where important notifications are overlooked due to the overwhelming number of alerts.