You need to separate infrastructure logs from application logs for different retention periods. Infrastructure logs should be kept for 30 days, application logs for 400 days. You also need to be able to query both sets of logs. What should you do?

Create two log sinks to the same bucket with different filters.

Export all logs to BigQuery and use BigQuery partitioning for retention.

Create one log bucket with a 400-day retention and use filters to separate logs when querying.

Create two log buckets with different retention periods and use log routers to route each log type to the appropriate bucket.

Your application runs on Compute Engine and emits a custom business metric: 'orders_processed'. You want to track this metric in Cloud Monitoring and alert when it drops below 10 per minute for 15 minutes. The application is already instrumented to send the metric. What should you do?

Create an alerting policy with a condition on the custom metric 'custom.googleapis.com/orders_processed' with a threshold of 10 for 15 minutes.

Create a log-based metric from application logs and alert on it.

Use Cloud Trace to collect the metric and then create an alert.

Export the metric to BigQuery and use BigQuery alerts.

Your finance team wants to reduce cloud spending. They ask you to identify underutilized Compute Engine instances that could be downsized or stopped. What should you use?

Cloud Monitoring alerts on CPU utilization

Cloud Logging log-based metrics

What is the primary purpose of a log sink in Cloud Logging?

To route logs to a destination outside Cloud Logging

To store logs in the default log bucket

To create alerts based on log content

To filter logs for viewing in the Logs Explorer

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You need to separate infrastructure logs from application logs for different retention periods. Infrastructure logs should be kept for 30 days, application logs for 400 days. You also need to be able to query both sets of logs. What should you do?
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32foundation · easy
Which API is used to write custom application metrics into Cloud Monitoring?
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33application · medium
Your application runs on Compute Engine and emits a custom business metric: 'orders_processed'. You want to track this metric in Cloud Monitoring and alert when it drops below 10 per minute for 15 minutes. The application is already instrumented to send the metric. What should you do?
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34application · easy
Your finance team wants to reduce cloud spending. They ask you to identify underutilized Compute Engine instances that could be downsized or stopped. What should you use?
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35foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of a log sink in Cloud Logging?
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