Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect — Question 228

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. 1. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace. 2. Add metrics and create alert policies.
• B. 1. Write a shell script that gathers metrics from GKE nodes, and publish these metrics to a Pub/Sub topic. 2. Export the data to BigQuery. and make a Data Studio dashboard.
• C. 1. Create a custom dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring workspace for each incident. 2. Add metrics and create alert policies.
• D. 1. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace. 2. Create custom metrics and install alerting software on a Compute Engine instance.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Option A is correct because it utilizes existing resources by navigating predefined dashboards and setting up alert policies, which allows for quick incident triage. The other options involve more complex processes, such as creating custom scripts or dashboards, which may delay incident response rather than streamline it.