Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
A company wants to monitor the performance of their microservices deployed on Cloud Run. They need to capture request latencies and error rates, and also trace requests across services. Which TWO services should they use?
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Cloud Trace
Cloud Monitoring collects metrics like latency and error rates and can create dashboards and alerts. Cloud Trace collects latency data across services for distributed tracing.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Cloud Trace
Why this is correct
Cloud Trace provides distributed tracing to capture request latencies across services.
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Error Reporting
Why it's wrong here
Error Reporting aggregates errors, but does not provide tracing or metrics.
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Cloud Profiler
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Profiler profiles CPU and memory usage, not request tracing.
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Cloud Logging
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Logging captures logs, not metrics or tracing.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why this is correct
Cloud Monitoring provides metrics and alerting for latency and error rates.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Microservices
Microservices is an architectural style where a software application is built as a collection of small, independent services, each handling a specific business function and communicating over a network.
Key term
Data
Data is raw, unprocessed information, like numbers, words, or measurements, that can be stored, processed, and analyzed by computers.
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