You want to notify on-call engineers about a service degradation in production while minimizing development time. What should you do?

Question

Options

• AUse Cloud Function to monitor resources and raise alerts.
• BUse Cloud Pub/Sub to monitor resources and raise alerts.
• CUse Stackdriver Error Reporting to capture errors and raise alerts.
• DUse Stackdriver Monitoring to monitor resources and raise alerts.

• A
  9% (4)
• B
  4% (2)
• C
  15% (7)
• D
  72% (34)

Explanation

Stackdriver (Cloud) Monitoring provides built-in alerting policies that can monitor resource metrics (CPU, latency, error rates, etc.) and send notifications to on-call engineers via built-in notification channels such as email, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack, and more. This requires no custom code - you configure alerting policies through the console or API. Options A and B (Cloud Functions and Cloud Pub/Sub) can be used to build custom monitoring pipelines but require significant development effort. Option C (Error Reporting) captures and groups errors but does not provide the same integrated monitoring and notification workflow; additional configuration is needed to route alerts to on-call teams.

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