Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in possible legal proceedings. Which approach should you use?

The correct answer is D. Configure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage. For archival purposes, Customer should use Cloud Storage. BigQuery is a datawarehouse, and could eventually import data from Cloud Storage if necessary. https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3/metrics https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/

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Question

Your organization requires that metrics from all applications be retained for 5 years for future analysis in possible legal proceedings. Which approach should you use?

Options

AGrant the security team access to the logs in each Project.
BConfigure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to BigQuery.
CConfigure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects with the default retention policies.
DConfigure Stackdriver Monitoring for all Projects, and export to Google Cloud Storage.

How the community answered

(26 responses)

B
8% (2)
C
4% (1)
D
88% (23)

Explanation

For archival purposes, Customer should use Cloud Storage. BigQuery is a datawarehouse, and could eventually import data from Cloud Storage if necessary. https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3/metrics https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/

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#Stackdriver Monitoring#log retention#Cloud Storage#data export

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