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Consul observability Questions

Practice questions for Consul observability topic in HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (003). 12 questions covering this domain.

12 questions4 easy6 medium2 hard
Q1
medium

A site reliability engineer notices that Consul server performance has degraded. They want to stream Consul server logs in real time from a running ag...

Q2
easy

A team wants to view metrics about their Consul service mesh data plane, such as request rates and error rates between services. Which component gener...

Q3
medium

An operator wants to capture an audit trail of all operator actions performed against the Consul HTTP API, such as token creation and policy changes. ...

Q4
easy

A Consul server runs inside a container and telemetry host metrics are enabled. What do the reported host CPU and memory metrics describe?

Q5
medium

Which control-plane condition does the monitor guidance recommend alerting on when it exceeds 50 percent?

Q6
medium

An operator curls `http://localhost:19000/listeners` on a service mesh node. What are they querying?

Q7
hard

An observability engineer wants one metric that summarizes HTTP API latency across endpoints while still distinguishing requests by verb and route sha...

Q8
medium

Which telemetry metric reports how many seconds remain until the agent TLS certificate expires?

Q9
easy

On a VM running an Envoy sidecar, which default port receives public mTLS connections from other proxies in the mesh?

Q10
hard

According to the monitoring guidance, which Raft condition should trigger an alert once it exceeds 50 percent?

Q11
easy

An observability engineer wants a single metric for Consul HTTP API latency that still distinguishes requests by route shape and verb. Which statement...

Q12
medium

What does the telemetry metric consul.agent.tls.cert.expiry report?

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