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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #262

You are troubleshooting connectivity issues between Google Cloud and a public SaaS provider. The connectivity between the two environments is through the public internet. Your users are reporting…

The correct answer is C. Enable and review Cloud Logging on your Cloud NAT Gateway. Look for logs with errors that. Enabling Cloud NAT logging surfaces NAT gateway events, like ephemeral port exhaustion or allocation failures, that can disrupt TCP sessions without affecting ICMP. Reviewing those logs for your SaaS provider’s destination IP around the error window will reveal whether Cloud…

Submitted by ngozi_ng· Apr 18, 2026Configuring network services

Question

You are troubleshooting connectivity issues between Google Cloud and a public SaaS provider. The connectivity between the two environments is through the public internet. Your users are reporting intermittent connection errors when using TCP to connect; however, ICMP tests show no failures. According to users, errors occur around the same time every day. You want to troubleshoot and gather information by using Google Cloud tools that are most likely to provide insights to what is occurring within Google Cloud. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate a Connectivity Test. Review the results for configuration issues in the VPC routing table.
  • BEnable and review Cloud Logging for Cloud Armor. Look for logs with errors that match the
  • CEnable and review Cloud Logging on your Cloud NAT Gateway. Look for logs with errors that
  • DEnable the Firewall Insights API. Set the Deny rule insights observation period to one day.

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    11% (5)
  • C
    83% (38)
  • D
    4% (2)

Explanation

Enabling Cloud NAT logging surfaces NAT gateway events, like ephemeral port exhaustion or allocation failures, that can disrupt TCP sessions without affecting ICMP. Reviewing those logs for your SaaS provider’s destination IP around the error window will reveal whether Cloud NAT is dropping or throttling connections, giving you direct insight into intermittent outbound TCP

Topics

#Cloud NAT#Troubleshooting#Network Logging#TCP Connectivity

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