You are currently planning how to display Cloud Monitoring metrics for your organization's Google Cloud projects. Your organization has three folders and six projects: You want to configure Cloud…

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Options

• ACreate a single new scoping project.
• BCreate new scoping projects for each folder.
• CUse the current app-one-prod project as the scoping project.
• DUse the current app-one-dev, app-one-staging, and app-one-prod projects as the scoping project

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  79% (23)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  14% (4)

Explanation

Cloud Monitoring uses a scoping project (formerly called a Workspace) to aggregate metrics from a set of monitored projects. To isolate metrics per folder, the Google-recommended practice is to create a dedicated scoping project for each folder and add only the projects within that folder as monitored projects. This prevents cross-folder metric bleed. Option A (one scoping project for all) would mix metrics across folders. Option C (reuse an existing project) is not recommended because app-one-prod would scope only one folder. Option D (multiple existing projects as scoping projects) is architecturally incorrect - each scoping project defines one monitoring scope.

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