Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect — Question 112

You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to triage incidents quickly. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, and then add metrics and create alert policies.
• B. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, create custom metrics, and install alerting software on a Compute Engine instance.
• C. Write a shell script that gathers metrics from GKE nodes, publish these metrics to a Pub/Sub topic, export the data to BigQuery, and make a Data Studio dashboard.
• D. Create a custom dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring workspace for each incident, and then add metrics and create alert policies.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because navigating predefined dashboards allows for immediate access to relevant metrics and the ability to set up alert policies for proactive incident management. Options B and C introduce unnecessary complexity, like creating custom metrics or additional software that may delay response times. Option D is less efficient as it requires creating a separate dashboard for each incident instead of utilizing existing resources.