PCDE Practice Question: Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies
You need to monitor the disk usage of your Cloud SQL instances and receive an alert when disk usage exceeds 80%. Which GCP service should you use to set up this alert?
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Why each option matters
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Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) is the GCP service for monitoring metrics and setting up alerting policies. Cloud Logging is for logs, Cloud Audit Logs for audit trails, and Cloud Billing reports for cost tracking.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why this is correct
Cloud Monitoring provides metrics and alerting for Cloud SQL disk usage.
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Cloud Audit Logs
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Audit Logs records administrative actions, not resource utilization alerts.
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Cloud Logging
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Logging is for log management, not metric-based alerting.
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Cloud Billing reports
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Billing reports are for cost tracking.
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