Monitoring Practice Questions
Metrics, logs, traces, SLOs and alert design. 5 original questions with full explanations.
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An on-call engineer receives frequent alerts for high CPU on individual instances, none of which affect users. What is the appropriate change?
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What this test covers
One concept per question. If you can explain each of these without hesitating, you are in good shape on Monitoring.
- Alert on symptoms users experience, not on causes that may be harmless
- The four golden signals describe service health from the user's perspective
- Burn-rate alerting scales urgency to how quickly the budget is being consumed
- Traces show where time is spent across service boundaries
- Log-based metrics turn log content into numeric time series you can alert on
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