Question

A retail company runs a fleet of VMs in us-central1 and europe-west1. The finance team flags a sudden spike in inter-region egress charges last month. As the network engineer, you need to quickly identify which specific workloads and traffic flows are driving the cross-region data transfer so you can recommend architectural changes. Which Network Intelligence Center capability provides the fastest way to visualize these traffic flows and their associated volumes across regions?

Accepted Answer

Use Network Topology to view aggregated traffic metrics between entities and identify the flows crossing region boundaries along with their throughput.

Answer

Run a Connectivity Test between the us-central1 and europe-west1 subnets to confirm reachability and measure the bandwidth of the path.

Answer

Open the Performance Dashboard to review the packet loss and latency between the two regions to pinpoint the costly flows.

Answer

Enable Firewall Insights to detect which firewall rules are allowing the cross-region traffic and quantify the egress volume.