Your team manages a large-scale application with multiple microservices. You have set up alerting policies for each service, but you are receiving too many alerts, many of which are duplicates or low-severity. You want to reduce alert fatigue while ensuring critical issues are still escalated. What should you do?

Implement alert grouping by service and severity, and set up escalation policies that notify different teams based on severity.

Use a single notification channel for all alerts to simplify management.

Increase the thresholds for all alerts to reduce the number of notifications.

Disable alerts for non-critical services and only keep alerts for the most important ones.

Your team manages a web application that uses Cloud Run. You need to monitor the number of 4xx and 5xx responses separately, and alert when the 5xx rate exceeds 2% of total requests for 5 minutes. You also want to avoid alerting during a known maintenance window. What should you do?

Create two log-based metrics (one for 4xx, one for 5xx), set up an alert on the 5xx rate, and configure a maintenance window to suppress alerts.

Set up an alert on the 5xx rate and disable it manually during maintenance windows.

Use Cloud Monitoring's built-in HTTP response code metrics, which are automatically collected for Cloud Run.

Create a single log-based metric for all errors (4xx and 5xx) and alert on the total error rate.

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Your team manages a large-scale application with multiple microservices. You have set up alerting policies for each service, but you are receiving too many alerts, many of which are duplicates or low-severity. You want to reduce alert fatigue while ensuring critical issues are still escalated. What should you do?
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A team wants to create a custom metric that counts the number of error logs in their application. Which Cloud Logging feature should they use?
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When designing a benchmarking test, what should be defined to compare against?
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Your team manages a web application that uses Cloud Run. You need to monitor the number of 4xx and 5xx responses separately, and alert when the 5xx rate exceeds 2% of total requests for 5 minutes. You also want to avoid alerting during a known maintenance window. What should you do?
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What type of data does Cloud Profiler collect to help identify performance bottlenecks?
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Questions 11–15

A team wants to create a custom metric that counts the number of error logs in their application. Which Cloud Logging feature should they use?

When designing a benchmarking test, what should be defined to compare against?

Your team manages a web application that uses Cloud Run. You need to monitor the number of 4xx and 5xx responses separately, and alert when the 5xx rate exceeds 2% of total requests for 5 minutes. You also want to avoid alerting during a known maintenance window. What should you do?

What type of data does Cloud Profiler collect to help identify performance bottlenecks?

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