You run an app on a Compute Engine instance (Google-managed image) and need to ingest the app's logs into SecOps with minimal cost/time. Logs have a valid label/parser in SecOps. What should you do?

• A. Use Ops Agent to pull logs into Cloud Logging, then direct ingestion into SecOps.
• B. Deploy a Bindplane agent to send logs.
• C. Script to push logs to SecOps Ingestion API.
• D. Ops Agent to Cloud Storage and create a SecOps feed.

Answer: (A)

Ingesting logs with minimal cost and latency by using the Ops Agent to collect on the VM, send into Cloud Logging, and then forward directly to SecOps is the most efficient path. The Ops Agent is designed to pull logs from the instance and place them into Cloud Logging with minimal setup, so you leverage Google's managed tooling rather than building something from scratch. Because the logs already have a valid label or parser in SecOps, forwarding them from Cloud Logging to SecOps lets SecOps apply its existing parsing without any extra transformation, keeping the pipeline simple and fast.

Using a third-party agent like BindPlane adds licensing and operational overhead. Writing a custom script to push logs to the SecOps API increases maintenance, error handling, and potential delays. Routing via Cloud Storage introduces extra storage costs and an additional hop, which slows things down and adds complexity. The chosen approach minimizes setup, maintenance, and cost while delivering logs to SecOps in a straightforward way.