Question

You operate a fleet of Compute Engine VMs behind a load balancer. Operations wants to be paged only when BOTH average CPU utilization exceeds 85% AND request latency exceeds 500ms for a sustained 5-minute window, to avoid noisy alerts during isolated spikes. Using Cloud Monitoring, what is the correct way to configure this?

Accepted Answer

Create a single alerting policy with two conditions and set the policy trigger to fire only when all conditions are met (combined with AND logic).

Answer

Create two separate alerting policies, one for CPU and one for latency, each with its own notification channel.

Answer

Create a single alerting policy with two conditions and set the trigger to fire when any condition is met (OR logic).

Answer

Create a log-based metric that counts high-CPU log entries and alert when the count exceeds a threshold.