Your on-premises legacy monitoring platform is slow to alert on cloud-deployed application incidents. How should you improve alerting while keeping your existing platform?

The correct answer leverages Google Cloud's native monitoring capabilities while integrating with your existing on-premises platform. Cloud Logging collects logs, and Cloud Monitoring provides metrics and alerting for your cloud resources. These services can then be configured to send alerts and data to your legacy monitoring platform, improving alert timeliness without a full migration. Replacing your monitoring platform with Cloud Monitoring (option 1) is a valid long-term strategy but doesn't meet the requirement of keeping your existing platform. Installing the Cloud Monitoring agent (option 2) is a good practice for collecting metrics from Compute Engine instances but doesn't address the broader need to integrate with the existing platform for alerts. Migrating traffic back to the old platform (option 3) is counterproductive and doesn't solve the alerting delay issue.