CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #351
An organization wants to ingest custom log data from GKE environments, virtual machines, and Google Cloud services. Which Google Cloud tool should the organization use?
The correct answer is B. Cloud Logging. Cloud Logging is Google Cloud's managed service purpose-built to ingest, store, and analyze log data from GKE clusters, Compute Engine VMs, and native Google Cloud services, including custom application logs. The other options serve unrelated functions.
Question
An organization wants to ingest custom log data from GKE environments, virtual machines, and Google Cloud services. Which Google Cloud tool should the organization use?
Options
- ADialogflow
- BCloud Logging
- CCloud SDK
- DData Catalog
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A3% (1)
- B89% (32)
- C6% (2)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Cloud Logging is Google Cloud's managed service purpose-built to ingest, store, and analyze log data from GKE clusters, Compute Engine VMs, and native Google Cloud services, including custom application logs. The other options serve unrelated functions.
Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform for building conversational interfaces and chatbots, and has no log ingestion or observability functionality.
Cloud Logging provides a centralized, scalable log ingestion pipeline that natively integrates with GKE, Compute Engine, and Google Cloud services through the Cloud Logging agent and the Logging API. It also supports ingestion of custom application logs using structured or unstructured formats via the write API or agent configuration. This makes it the appropriate single tool for the described multi-environment log aggregation requirement.
Cloud SDK is a command-line interface and client library toolkit for interacting with Google Cloud APIs; it does not ingest or store log data.
Data Catalog is a metadata discovery and governance service for structured data assets and does not collect or store runtime application or infrastructure logs.
Concept tested: Cloud Logging for multi-environment log ingestion
Source: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/overview
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