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Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues

You are designing a hosting architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical applications. The applications expose custom metrics for monitoring with Prometheus. You need to collect the application metrics for alerting and troubleshooting. You want to minimize manual effort and ongoing maintenance while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Explanation

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus managed collection is Google’s recommended approach for Kubernetes environments. It collects Prometheus metrics from GKE workloads while the managed Kubernetes operator handles collector deployment, scrape configuration, scaling, and related operational maintenance; the collected data supports Cloud Monitoring querying and alerting.

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