ssh into the VM

gcloud compute ssh --zone "europe-west10-a" "data-collector" --project "workflows-413409"

copy files from VM to local (e.g., get the DB)

gcloud compute copy-files data-collector:/data_collector-main/database.db . --zone=europe-west10-a

send a request to store a measurement in the DB

curl 34.32.51.179/insert -d '{"tableName": "measurements", "timestamp": 1234, "totalWorkflowDuration": 12.34}'