Your organization is establishing an incident management workflow to ensure fast operational response and observability during outages for a newly launched application on Google Cloud. You need to configure automated alerting and log management in Cloud Operations to notify on-call staff and maintain log visibility during incidents. Which TWO actions should you take to achieve this objective?
- Configure Cloud Monitoring notification channels using native integrations or Webhooks to automatically route alert incidents to Third-Party Incident Management tools and team communication platforms.Answer
- BAssign the primitive Owner role to all incident response team members across the organization so they can bypass alerting policy restrictions during active incidents.
- Ensure critical application and audit log severity levels are preserved without applying overly broad Cloud Logging exclusion filters.Answer
- DConfigure load balancer health checks to execute deep database queries directly on downstream dependencies to trigger alerting policies earlier.
- EApply high-volume Cloud Logging exclusion filters targeting all ERROR and CRITICAL severity logs to minimize operational log ingestion charges.
Answer
The correct actions are to configure Cloud Monitoring notification channels (such as Webhooks or third-party integrations) to route incident notifications automatically, and to preserve high-severity log entries by avoiding overly broad Cloud Logging exclusion filters.
Automated incident management in GCP relies on configuring Cloud Monitoring notification channels (such as Webhooks and third-party integrations) for prompt alerting, while ensuring Cloud Logging ingested filters retain error logs so automated log alerts fire properly.
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Incident Management and Automated Alerting Notification Channels and Log Visibility