Google ACE Deploying and Implementing a Cloud Solution Practice Question
An engineer needs to view the logs generated by a Cloud Run service to troubleshoot a recent deployment. Which service should they use?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Logging
Cloud Logging (formerly Stackdriver Logging) is the unified logging service for Google Cloud. Cloud Run logs are automatically sent to Cloud Logging.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Monitoring specializes in time-series metrics, uptime checks, dashboards, and alerting policies — not raw log viewing. While it can display logs-based metrics derived from Cloud Run log entries, the actual log messages themselves live in Cloud Logging. To inspect the logs generated by a Cloud Run service, you must use Cloud Logging's Logs Explorer, not Cloud Monitoring.
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Cloud Logging
Why this is correct
Cloud Logging is the correct choice because it is the native, centralized log storage and retrieval service for Google Cloud, and Cloud Run automatically sends both request logs and platform logs to it. Application output written to stdout/stderr is also captured as structured logs. You can view these logs immediately in the Logs Explorer and filter them by resource type, severity, or labels.
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Error Reporting
Why it's wrong here
Error Reporting ingests and aggregates only exception and error signals, using machine learning to cluster them into meaningful groups with stack traces, so it is not a general log viewer. It consumes error-like entries from Cloud Logging but is neither the storage location nor the interface for browsing the full set of Cloud Run logs. A typical Cloud Run service also emits info and debug logs that Error Reporting ignores entirely.
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Cloud Trace
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Trace measures latency and traces end-to-end request paths across services, recording spans with timing metadata rather than log content. It can show how long each call took in a Cloud Run request, but it will not show you the textual or structured logs your service emitted. For Cloud Run log viewing, Cloud Trace is a complementary debugging tool, not the destination for logs.
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Key term
Cloud logging
Cloud logging is the practice of collecting, storing, and analyzing log data generated by cloud-based resources and applications to monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and maintain security.
Key term
Cloud Run
Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform from Google Cloud that lets you run containerized applications in a serverless environment, automatically scaling from zero to thousands of requests.
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