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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A company uses Cloud Logging to capture application logs. They need to alert when the number of errors exceeds 100 in a 5-minute window. Which type of alert should they create?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Log-based metric with an alerting policy
Log-based metrics allow you to count log entries matching a filter. You can then create a metric and an alerting policy based on that metric. The other options are not suitable: SLO alerts monitor service level objectives, notification channels are destinations, and sinks export logs.
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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Notification channel with email integration
Why it's wrong here
Notification channels are destinations for alerts, not the alert itself.
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Cloud Logging sink to a Pub/Sub topic
Why it's wrong here
Sinks export logs; they do not generate alerts.
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Log-based metric with an alerting policy
Why this is correct
Log-based metrics count matching log entries; you can set an alert on the metric value.
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SLO alerting policy
Why it's wrong here
SLO alerts are for monitoring service level objectives, not direct log-based counting.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
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.
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