An organization needs to search an application's source code to identify a potential issue. The application is distributed across multiple containers. Which Google Cloud product should the…

The correct answer is B. Cloud Trace. Cloud Trace is Google Cloud's distributed tracing service. When an application is spread across multiple containers or microservices, a single user request may pass through many components. Cloud Trace tracks the end-to-end execution path of requests across all those…

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Question

An organization needs to search an application's source code to identify a potential issue. The application is distributed across multiple containers. Which Google Cloud product should the organization use?

Options

AGoogle Cloud Console
BCloud Trace
CCloud Monitoring
DCloud Logging

How the community answered

(30 responses)

A
10% (3)
B
83% (25)
C
3% (1)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

Cloud Trace is Google Cloud's distributed tracing service. When an application is spread across multiple containers or microservices, a single user request may pass through many components. Cloud Trace tracks the end-to-end execution path of requests across all those containers, providing a detailed view of how code executes at each layer and where latency or failures occur. This makes it the right tool for identifying issues in a distributed, containerized application. Cloud Console (A) is a general management UI. Cloud Monitoring (C) collects metrics but does not trace code execution paths. Cloud Logging (D) captures log text entries but does not provide the request-path tracing needed to pinpoint issues across multiple containers.

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#Cloud Trace#Distributed Tracing#Observability#Application Performance Monitoring

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