You want to use the Stackdriver Logging Agent to send an application's log file to Stackdriver from a Compute Engine virtual machine instance. After installing the Stackdriver Logging Agent, what…

Question

Options

• AEnable the Error Reporting API on the project.
• BGrant the instance full access to all Cloud APIs.
• CConfigure the application log file as a custom source.
• DCreate a Stackdriver Logs Export Sink with a filter that matches the application's log entries.

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  10% (3)
• C
  80% (24)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

After installing the Stackdriver Logging Agent (based on fluentd), the first required step for ingesting a custom application log file is to configure that file as a custom log source. This means creating a configuration file (typically in /etc/google-fluentd/config.d/) that tells the agent the file path to tail and the log format. Without this configuration, the agent will only collect default system logs. Option A (Error Reporting API) is unrelated to general log ingestion. Option B (full API access) is unnecessary if the VM already has the Logs Writer IAM role via its service account. Option D (creating a Logs Export Sink) is a downstream step that comes after logs are already flowing into Stackdriver Logging.

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