GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

The Google Cloud Ops Agent is a single, unified agent that gathers both metrics and logs from Compute Engine instances, replacing the separate legacy Monitoring and Logging agents. Installing the Ops Agent and removing the old agents gives you VM metrics plus Apache (and other) log ingestion while using just one agent, minimizing resource overhead and long-term maintenance. Merely adding the separate Logging agent keeps two agents running, increasing overhead. Enabling log-based metrics or forwarding logs with Fluent Bit does not address the need to collect raw logs from the VMs with minimal agent count.