Your organization is running multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project.

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Update on: Feb 7, 2026
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Your organization is running multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in a project. You need to design a highly-available solution to collect and query both domain-specific workload metrics and GKE default metrics across all clusters, while minimizing operational overhead. What should you do?

Use Prometheus Operator to install Prometheus in every cluster and scrape the metrics. Ensure that a Thanos sidecar is enabled on every Prometheus instance. Configure Thanos in the central cluster. Query the central Thanos instance.

Use Prometheus Operator to install Prometheus in every cluster and scrape the metrics. Configure remote-write to one central Prometheus. Query the central Prometheus instance.

Enable managed collection on every GKE cluster. Query the metrics in Cloud Monitoring.

Enable managed collection on every GKE cluster. Query the metrics in BigQuery.