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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question

Your team runs a Java microservice on several Compute Engine VMs. The service already emits application-specific metrics (for example, processed_orders, queue_depth) to a local OTLP gRPC endpoint on port 4317. You need these metrics to appear in Cloud Monitoring dashboards without changing the application code or libraries. Which approach satisfies the requirement with the least operational effort?

  • Install the OpenTelemetry Collector for Google Cloud (or enable the Ops Agent collector) on each VM, configure an OTLP receiver for localhost:4317, and use the Google Cloud exporter to send the metrics to Cloud Monitoring.

  • Enable the Cloud Trace API for the project; OTLP metrics will automatically be imported and shown in Cloud Monitoring.

  • Create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard with custom charts and use gcloud monitoring dashboards import to pull data from the OTLP endpoint.

  • Deploy a Pub/Sub sidecar that subscribes to the OTLP port and republishes the data; configure a log sink to forward the messages to Cloud Monitoring.

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