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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #393

Your company is seeking a scalable solution to retain and explore application logs hosted on Compute Engine. You must be able to analyze your logs with SQL queries, and you want to be able to create…

The correct answer is C. Ingest your application logs to Cloud Logging by using Ops Agent, and explore your logs with Log. Ingesting your application logs to Cloud Logging using the Ops Agent and exploring the logs with Log Analytics is the recommended solution. This approach leverages Cloud Logging's built-in capabilities for querying logs with SQL-like syntax and allows you to visualize trends…

Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

Question

Your company is seeking a scalable solution to retain and explore application logs hosted on Compute Engine. You must be able to analyze your logs with SQL queries, and you want to be able to create charts to identify patterns and trends in your logs over time. You want to follow Google-recommended practices and minimize your operational costs. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse a custom script to push your application logs to BigQuery for exploration.
  • BIngest your application logs to Cloud Logging by using Ops Agent, and explore your logs in Logs
  • CIngest your application logs to Cloud Logging by using Ops Agent, and explore your logs with Log
  • DUse a custom script to push your application logs to Cloud SQL for exploration.

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    19% (5)
  • C
    70% (19)
  • D
    7% (2)

Explanation

Ingesting your application logs to Cloud Logging using the Ops Agent and exploring the logs with Log Analytics is the recommended solution. This approach leverages Cloud Logging's built-in capabilities for querying logs with SQL-like syntax and allows you to visualize trends over time, all while minimizing operational costs. Log Analytics provides a powerful interface for log exploration

Topics

#Cloud Logging#Log Analytics#Ops Agent#SQL log exploration

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