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Prometheus and Metrics Questions

Practice questions for Prometheus and Metrics topic in Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate. 8 questions covering this domain.

8 questions1 easy5 medium2 hard
Q1
medium

A team needs a component in the Prometheus ecosystem to handle alerts after rules fire. Which component should they use?

Q2
medium

How does Prometheus primarily collect metrics from targets?

Q3
hard

A team configures a Prometheus rule that triggers an alert when the error rate of an API exceeds 5% for five minutes. After the alert fires, it is rec...

Q4
easy

What data format does Prometheus use to expose metrics from applications and services for scraping?

Q5
hard

A finance team wants to use Prometheus as the sole source of truth for exact customer billing. What is the main concern?

Q6
medium

A batch job finishes in seconds, usually before Prometheus can scrape it. How should the team expose its metrics most appropriately?

Q7
medium

During a planned maintenance window, on-call engineers want alerts suppressed temporarily without deleting the underlying alert rules. Which Alertmana...

Q8
medium

A team wants one latency metric to be sliced by service, region, and status code. In Prometheus, what enables that dimensional breakdown?

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