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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your company is migrating 50 Ubuntu 22.04 Compute Engine VMs to production. You must forward detailed instance metrics (CPU utilization, disk I/O) and custom application logs from Nginx into Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. You want to minimize operational overhead by running a single, Google-supported agent that will continue to receive automatic updates. What should you do?

  • Enable the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging APIs only; Compute Engine will automatically send all guest metrics and logs without agents.

  • Install the Cloud Operations Ops Agent on each VM and configure an Nginx receiver in the agent's YAML file to collect logs and metrics.

  • Export each VM's serial console output to Cloud Storage and load it into BigQuery for analysis on a schedule.

  • Install the legacy Stackdriver Monitoring agent for metrics and the separate fluentd-based Logging agent for logs.

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Setting up a cloud solution environment
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