You are a SOC manager at an organization that recently implemented Google Security Operations (SecOps). You need to monitor your organization's data…

Google Security Operations integrates with Google Cloud Monitoring to provide detailed metrics on data ingestion. Cloud Monitoring is the designated service for creating custom dashboards and alerting policies based on these metrics. You can configure an alerting policy in Cloud Monitoring to trigger a notification if a log source's entry count drops to zero for a specified duration (e.g., 15 minutes), thus meeting the silent source requirement. Additionally, Cloud Monitoring allows you to build custom dashboards to visualize key ingestion metrics over time, such as throughput (logentryingestedbytecount) and parsing errors (logentryparseerrorcount), fulfilling the visualization requirement.

A. The built-in Data Ingestion and Health dashboard is for high-level views and scheduled reports, but it does not provide the capability to configure real-time, condition-based alerts for silent sources.

B. Risk Analytics is designed to correlate security telemetry and identify high-risk entities. It is not the appropriate tool for monitoring the operational health or metrics of the data ingestion pipeline.

C. While Bindplane has its own observability features, the native and recommended approach for monitoring Google SecOps ingestion is through the integrated Google Cloud Monitoring service, which provides a unified platform for metrics, alerting, and dashboarding.

1. Google Cloud Documentation - SecOps - Monitor data ingestion: "Google SecOps provides a set of Cloud Monitoring metrics that you can use to monitor and analyze the data that is ingested into your Google SecOps account... You can use these metrics to create custom dashboards and alerts to help you monitor your data ingestion pipeline." This page explicitly details using Cloud Monitoring for both alerting and dashboards.

2. Google Cloud Documentation - SecOps - Create an alerting policy for a silent data source: This guide provides a step-by-step procedure for configuring an alert in Cloud Monitoring. It states

"To create an alerting policy that notifies you when a log source stops sending logs

do the following... In the Configure trigger section

set Trigger type to Metric absence and Trigger absence time to 15 minutes." This directly supports the 15-minute silent source notification requirement.

3. Google Cloud Documentation - SecOps - Create a custom dashboard for ingestion metrics: This document outlines the process for building a custom dashboard in Cloud Monitoring to visualize ingestion metrics. It provides examples for charting "Ingested Log Entries" and "Ingested Log Volume

" which correspond to throughput and can be adapted for parsing errors

directly supporting the visualization requirement. The specific metrics mentioned are seclm.googleapis.com/collection/logentrycount and seclm.googleapis.com/collection/logentryingestedbytecount.