20+ practice questions focused on Instrumentation And Exporters — one of the most tested topics on the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA, CNCF/Linux Foundation) (PCA) exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Instrumentation And Exporters PracticeYour application has a short-lived batch job that finishes before the Prometheus server can scrape it. What architectural component should be used?
Explanation: The Pushgateway is designed to allow ephemeral and batch jobs to expose their metrics to Prometheus.
You need to track the number of requests received by your application. Which metric type should you choose?
Explanation: A counter is a cumulative metric that represents a single monotonically increasing counter whose value can only increase or be reset to zero on restart.
Which action should be avoided when creating labels for custom metrics?
Explanation: Adding high-cardinality data (like user IDs or unique request IDs) to labels causes an explosion in the number of time series, which can crash Prometheus.
When implementing a custom exporter, what format must the output follow to be correctly scraped by Prometheus?
Explanation: Prometheus requires a text-based format where each metric is represented by lines, including name, labels, and values.
You are using the blackbox_exporter to monitor an HTTP endpoint. Which module configuration is required to check the HTTP status code?
Explanation: The http_2xx module is the standard configuration for checking that an endpoint returns a successful HTTP status code.
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