You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to triage incidents quickly. What should you do?

The correct answer is A. Navigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, and then add metrics. Predefined dashboards can be edited to add policies which allow you to set metrics and alerts. You can't delete or copy these dashboards, and you can't add or remove charts to these https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/charts/predefined-dashboards

Submitted by joshua94· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring solution and operations reliability

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You are monitoring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a Cloud Monitoring workspace. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you need to triage incidents quickly. What should you do?

Options

ANavigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, and then add metrics
BNavigate the predefined dashboards in the Cloud Monitoring workspace, create custom metrics,
CWrite a shell script that gathers metrics from GKE nodes, publish these metrics to a Pub/Sub
DCreate a custom dashboard in the Cloud Monitoring workspace for each incident, and then add

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A
95% (20)
C
5% (1)

Explanation

Predefined dashboards can be edited to add policies which allow you to set metrics and alerts. You can't delete or copy these dashboards, and you can't add or remove charts to these https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/charts/predefined-dashboards

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