Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer — Question 168

Your organization is running a MySQL workload in Cloud SQL. Suddenly you see a degradation in database performance. You need to identify the root cause of the performance degradation. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Use Logs Explorer to analyze log data.
• B. Use Cloud Monitoring to monitor CPU, memory, and storage utilization metrics.
• C. Use Error Reporting to count, analyze, and aggregate the data.
• D. Use Cloud Debugger to inspect the state of an application.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because monitoring CPU, memory, and storage metrics is essential to identify resource bottlenecks that affect database performance. Options A, C, and D do not provide direct insights into the performance metrics needed to troubleshoot the degradation effectively.