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You manage three Google Cloud projects with the Cloud Monitoring API enabled. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to visualize CPU and network metrics for all three projects together. What

The correct answer is B. 1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.. To visualize metrics from multiple Google Cloud projects collectively, the recommended practice is to create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard in a designated 'scoping project' which can aggregate metrics from all associated monitored projects.

Submitted by ngozi_ng· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

Question

You manage three Google Cloud projects with the Cloud Monitoring API enabled. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to visualize CPU and network metrics for all three projects together. What should you do?

Options

  • A
    1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard
  • B
    1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.
  • C1 Create a Service Account and apply roles/viewer on the three projects
  • D
    1. Create a fourth Google Cloud project

How the community answered

(19 responses)
  • B
    84% (16)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    11% (2)

Why each option

To visualize metrics from multiple Google Cloud projects collectively, the recommended practice is to create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard in a designated 'scoping project' which can aggregate metrics from all associated monitored projects.

A1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard

This option is identical to B, describing the correct method for aggregating and visualizing metrics across multiple projects in Cloud Monitoring.

B1. Create a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.Correct

Google Cloud Monitoring allows you to create a 'scoping project' which can monitor resources from multiple associated Google Cloud projects. By creating a Cloud Monitoring Dashboard within this scoping project, you can add widgets that display metrics (like CPU and network usage) from any of the projects monitored by that workspace, providing a consolidated view across all three projects.

C1 Create a Service Account and apply roles/viewer on the three projects

Creating a service account and granting viewer roles is for programmatic access control to projects, not the mechanism for aggregating and visualizing metrics from multiple projects in a single monitoring view.

D1. Create a fourth Google Cloud project

Creating a fourth Google Cloud project is not inherently the step to aggregate monitoring; while that project *could* become the scoping project, the key action is the dashboard setup within Cloud Monitoring (and project association), not just creating a project.

Concept tested: Cross-project Cloud Monitoring dashboards

Source: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/create-project-multi-project

Topics

#Cloud Monitoring#dashboards#multi-project metrics#observability

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