Exam Professional-Data-Engineer Topic 4 Question 415 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional-Data-Engineer exam
Question #: 415
Topic #: 4
You are deploying MariaDB SQL databases on GCE VM Instances and need to configure monitoring and alerting. You want to collect metrics including network connections, disk IO and replication status from MariaDB with minimal development effort and use StackDriver for dashboards and alerts. What should you do?

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MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS). To collect logs and metrics for MariaDB, use the mysql receivers.
The mysql receiver connects by default to a local MariaDB server using a Unix socket and Unix authentication as the root user.
Reference:
https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/solutions/agents/ops-agent/third-party/mariadb

by Myron at Aug 14, 2026, 02:06 PM

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