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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #284
You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over the past few days. You want to find the…
The correct answer is A. Inspect the logs and metrics from the instances in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring. First thing to do is to inspect logs and monitoring to see what is happening.
Submitted by weili_xi· Mar 30, 2026Ensuring solution and operations reliability
Question
You are managing several internal applications that are deployed on Compute Engine. Business users inform you that an application has become very slow over the past few days. You want to find the underlying cause in order to solve the problem. What should you do first?
Options
- AInspect the logs and metrics from the instances in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.
- BChange the Compute Engine Instances behind the application to a machine type with more CPU
- CRestore a backup of the application database from a time before the application became slow.
- DDeploy the applications on a managed instance group with autoscaling enabled. Add a load
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A91% (29)
- B3% (1)
- D6% (2)
Explanation
First thing to do is to inspect logs and monitoring to see what is happening.
Topics
#Cloud Logging#Cloud Monitoring#Compute Engine#performance troubleshooting
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