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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #178

You have a data pipeline that writes data to Cloud Bigtable using well-designed row keys. You want to monitor your pipeline to determine when to increase the size of you Cloud Bigtable cluster…

The correct answer is C. Monitor the latency of write operations. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when there is a sustained increase in write latency. D. Monitor storage utilization. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when utilization increases above 70% of max capacity. D –> since Google recommends adding nodes when storage utilization is > 70% https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/modifying-instance#nodes

Submitted by akirajp· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

You have a data pipeline that writes data to Cloud Bigtable using well-designed row keys. You want to monitor your pipeline to determine when to increase the size of you Cloud Bigtable cluster. Which two actions can you take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AReview Key Visualizer metrics. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when the Read pressure index is above 100.
  • BReview Key Visualizer metrics. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when the Write pressure index is above 100.
  • CMonitor the latency of write operations. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when there is a sustained increase in write latency.
  • DMonitor storage utilization. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster when utilization increases above 70% of max capacity.
  • EMonitor latency of read operations. Increase the size of the Cloud Bigtable cluster of read operations take longer than 100 ms.

How the community answered

(37 responses)
  • A
    11% (4)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    81% (30)
  • E
    3% (1)

Explanation

D –> since Google recommends adding nodes when storage utilization is > 70% https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/modifying-instance#nodes

Topics

#Cloud Bigtable#Key Visualizer#cluster scaling#write latency

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