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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #278
You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows: -
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Submitted by jaden.t· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring solution and operations reliability
Question
You have a Compute Engine application that you want to autoscale when total memory usage exceeds 80%. You have installed the Cloud Monitoring agent and configured the autoscaling policy as follows: - Metric identifier: agent.googleapis.com/memory/percent_used - Filter: metric.label.state = 'used' - Target utilization level: 80 - Target type: GAUGE You observe that the application does not scale under high load. You want to resolve this. What should you do?
Options
- AChange the Target type to DELTA_PER_MINUTE. (in this case the utlization tagret need to be
- BChange the Metric identifier to agent.googleapis.com/memory/bytes_used. (not applicable)
- CChange the filter to metric.label.state = 'used' AND metric.label.state = 'buffered' AND
- DChange the filter to metric.label.state = 'free' and the Target utilization to 20. (you would still
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Topics
#Compute Engine autoscaling#Cloud Monitoring#memory metrics#autoscaling policy