Question

Your organization runs workloads across three projects that share a common Shared VPC. Application owners report intermittent latency between a frontend service in one project and a backend service in another. Before opening a support case, you want to visually confirm the actual traffic paths, identify which regions the traffic traverses, and see aggregated throughput and packet-loss indicators between the VM instances involved — using observed telemetry rather than a synthetic simulation. Which Network Intelligence Center capability should you use?

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Network Topology, which visualizes the deployment and connectivity of your resources using real traffic telemetry, including metrics like throughput and packet loss between entities

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Connectivity Tests, which runs a configuration-based simulation to determine whether a packet would be allowed between the source and destination

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Firewall Insights, which analyzes firewall rule usage and surfaces shadowed or overly permissive rules

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Performance Dashboard, which shows aggregate packet loss and latency across Google's network between zones for your project