1. No it would not be expensive. Writing metrics is literally free: https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing . If metrics didn't exist yet then log 1/1000 requests to control the log volume and find the pattern from the averages.
2. It isn't up to google to tell you if you are querying against the cache or the DB. It's your code. You should know. Just tick something when you use the Redis/BQ/GCS/SQL client.
This task is so easy I would assign it to a junior engineer and expect code changes done in one day!
2. It isn't up to google to tell you if you are querying against the cache or the DB. It's your code. You should know. Just tick something when you use the Redis/BQ/GCS/SQL client.
This task is so easy I would assign it to a junior engineer and expect code changes done in one day!