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Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for l
The correct answer is B. Create an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to a Coldline Storage bucket.. Coldline Storage is the perfect service to store audit logs from all the projects and is very cost- efficient as well. Coldline Storage is a very low-cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.
Submitted by viktor_hu· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution
Question
Your organization is a financial company that needs to store audit log files for 3 years. Your organization has hundreds of Google Cloud projects. You need to implement a cost-effective approach for log file retention. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to BigQuery.
- BCreate an export to the sink that saves logs from Cloud Audit to a Coldline Storage bucket.
- CWrite a custom script that uses logging API to copy the logs from Stackdriver logs to BigQuery.
- DExport these logs to Cloud Pub/Sub and write a Cloud Dataflow pipeline to store logs to Cloud
How the community answered
(62 responses)- A5% (3)
- B73% (45)
- C16% (10)
- D6% (4)
Explanation
Coldline Storage is the perfect service to store audit logs from all the projects and is very cost- efficient as well. Coldline Storage is a very low-cost, highly durable storage service for storing infrequently accessed data.
Topics
#Cloud Audit logs#log export sink#Coldline Storage#log retention
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