Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A team needs to set up alerting for a production service. They want to receive notifications when the 99th percentile latency exceeds 500ms for 5 minutes. Which two Cloud Monitoring components are required? (Choose two.)
Correct answer & explanation
To alert on latency, you need a metric (e.g., from Cloud Monitoring) and an alerting policy that defines the condition and notification channel. A dashboard is not required. SLO is not required, but can be used. Log-based metrics are for logs, not latency.
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Latency
Latency is the time delay between a request being sent over a network and the response being received, often measured in milliseconds.
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SLO
A Service Level Objective is a measurable target for a specific aspect of a service's performance or reliability that a team commits to meeting over a defined period.
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