For monitoring ingestion health with Bindplane, which steps ensure you get notified about silent sources within 15 minutes and have a clear view of throughput and parsing errors?

• A. Configure notifications in Cloud Monitoring for Bindplane silent sources; visualize metrics using Bindplane OP.
• B. Configure silent source notifications for SecOps collection agents in Cloud Monitoring; create a monitoring dashboard.
• C. Configure alerting based on rule detections in Risk Analytics.
• D. Schedule ingestion health report delivery.

Answer: (B)

Monitoring ingestion health relies on both timely alerts for liveness and a clear, centralized view of data flow. Setting silent source notifications for the SecOps collection agents in Cloud Monitoring ensures you’re alerted within a defined window (such as 15 minutes) whenever a source stops sending data, so gaps are detected quickly and you can respond fast.

Creating a Cloud Monitoring dashboard for throughput and parsing errors gives you an at-a-glance view of how much data is being ingested and where parsing issues are occurring. This combination—alerting on silent sources and a dedicated dashboard for throughput and parsing errors—provides prompt notifications plus actionable visibility into ingestion health.

Other approaches don’t satisfy both needs as effectively: relying on a Bindplane-specific visualization won’t guarantee timely alerts in Cloud Monitoring, risk analytics targets security risk rather than ingestion health, and scheduled reports don’t provide real-time awareness.