6. DevOps

Monitoring — Quiz

Test your understanding of monitoring with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which Prometheus metric type should be used to capture HTTP request durations when the goal is to compute global percentile latency across multiple instances?

Question 2

Which PromQL function returns the per-second average rate of increase of the counter metric api_requests_total over the last 5 minutes?

Question 3

A Prometheus server scrapes targets at a 15-second interval. How many data points per minute will be collected for each time series?

Question 4

For a monthly availability SLO of 99.95% over a 30-day period, what is the maximum allowed downtime in minutes?

Question 5

In an Alertmanager configuration, which directive specifies the initial waiting time before sending the first notification for a group of alerts?