1Z0-997-26 Observability — Timed 25 Questions

Question 1

Your company requires all logs generated within the root compartment to be automatically archived to a centralized OCI Object Storage bucket in a different security tenancy for compliance purposes. Which OCI feature facilitates this serverless data pipeline?

25 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

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OCI Service Connector Hub. OCI Service Connector Hub is a fully managed, serverless service that moves data between OCI services, such as from Logging to Object Storage, without writing code. It supports cross-tenancy delivery when configured with the appropriate policies and a target bucket in another tenancy. This makes it the correct choice for automatically archiving root compartment logs to a centralized bucket in a different security tenancy.

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OCI Data Flow

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OCI GoldenGate

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OCI Archive Storage lifecycle rules

Question 2

You want to monitor the availability of a public-facing corporate web application from multiple global locations outside of OCI. Which OCI service provides this capability?

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OCI Health Checks. OCI Health Checks is a service that monitors the availability and performance of public-facing web applications from multiple global vantage points outside OCI. It can perform HTTP(S), TCP, and ping checks from various geographic locations, providing external availability monitoring. This matches the requirement to monitor from multiple global locations outside OCI.

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OCI Logging Analytics

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OCI Network Firewall

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OCI APM Synthetic Monitoring

Question 3

Your enterprise tenancy has hundreds of compartments. You need to ensure that any newly created compute instance across any compartment automatically has the OCI Logging Agent configured to ship system logs. Which feature should you implement?

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Enable the Management Agent plugin via OCI Compute Instance Configurations and IAM tenancy-level policies.. OCI Compute Instance Configurations allow you to define a reusable template that includes Management Agent plugins (such as the Logging Agent plugin) which are automatically installed and enabled on every instance launched from that configuration. Combined with tenancy-level IAM policies granting the Management Agent service permission to deploy plugins, this ensures any new instance across any compartment gets the Logging Agent without manual intervention. This is the native, scalable OCI mechanism for enforcing agent configuration at scale.

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Configure a Service Connector Hub rule to push agent binaries to new instances upon creation.

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Rely on default OCI Monitoring service metric collection, which automatically collects guest OS log files without agents.

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Create an OCI Events rule for instance creation that triggers a Resource Manager stack to install the agent via SSH.

Question 4

Your security operations team wants to identify log anomalies, such as sudden spikes in failed SSH login attempts across your OCI Compute fleet, without manually writing complex regex queries. Which Logging Analytics feature leverages machine learning to automatically group and identify patterns in logs?

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Logging Analytics Cluster and Link commands. Logging Analytics Cluster and Link commands use machine learning to automatically group similar log entries into clusters and link related events across sources, surfacing patterns like sudden spikes in failed SSH attempts without writing regex. This is the built-in ML-driven pattern discovery feature of OCI Logging Analytics. It is designed exactly for anomaly identification in high-volume log data.

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OCI Service Connector Hub pattern matching

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OCI Cloud Guard Threat Detector rules

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OCI APM Anomaly Detection agent

Question 5

You are managing a multi-tenancy OCI architecture where cost allocation is critical. Certain shared infrastructure resources (such as shared VCN NAT Gateways and Object Storage transfer buckets) generate shared costs. How can you allocate these shared costs across different child compartments using OCI Cost Analysis?

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Use OCI Cost Analysis Cost Distribution Rules to proportionally allocate shared costs based on defined tags.. OCI Cost Analysis supports Cost Distribution Rules that let you allocate shared costs (such as a shared NAT Gateway or Object Storage bucket) across child compartments proportionally based on defined tags or usage metrics. This is the native, supported mechanism for multi-tenant chargeback and showback, and it integrates directly with the Cost Analysis dashboards and reports.

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Attach IAM permission tags to shared resources to automatically split charges at the bank level.

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Write custom OCI Monitoring metric alarms that automatically credit compartments when shared resources are used.

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Manually split CSV invoice files in Excel after downloading monthly Cost Reports.

Question 6

An administrator wants to set up automated remediation when an OCI Monitoring alarm is triggered for high CPU utilization on a database. Specifically, they want a serverless function to execute to scale up resources. Which OCI service acts as the bridge to trigger the function upon alarm firing?

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OCI Notifications Service. OCI Notifications Service is the pub/sub bridge that Monitoring alarms publish to; a subscription on the topic can target a Functions invocation, which then runs the remediation logic. This is the documented pattern for alarm-triggered serverless remediation in OCI. The alarm fires, publishes to the Notifications topic, and the Functions subscription executes the scale-up code.

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OCI Service Connector Hub

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OCI API Gateway

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OCI Events Service

Question 7

Which TWO protocols or formats are natively supported for publishing custom metrics to the OCI Monitoring service?

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OCI Monitoring REST API. Option C (OCI Monitoring REST API) is correct because OCI Monitoring exposes a public REST endpoint (https://telemetry-ingestion.<region>.oraclecloud.com/20180401/metrics) that accepts JSON POST requests containing MetricDataDetails, allowing any application to publish custom metrics directly. Option E (StatsD protocol) is correct because OCI Monitoring natively supports ingesting StatsD-formatted metrics, typically via the OCI Monitoring agent or a StatsD-compatible endpoint, so applications already emitting StatsD counters, gauges, and timers can publish custom metrics without format conversion. Option A (SQL*Net) is incorrect because it is Oracle Database's proprietary network protocol for SQL client-server traffic, not a metrics ingestion format. Option B (Syslog RFC 5424) is incorrect because syslog is a logging/event transport standard and is not a native custom-metric publishing protocol for OCI Monitoring. Option D (IMAP) is incorrect because IMAP is an email retrieval protocol with no role in metrics ingestion.

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SQL*Net protocol

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Syslog RFC 5424

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IMAP email protocol

Question 8

An observability architect is designing a high-availability alerting and incident response strategy in OCI. Which THREE best practices should be incorporated?

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Set appropriate evaluation periods and repeat intervals to prevent alarm flapping.. Option A is correct because OCI Monitoring alarms use configurable evaluation periods (e.g., 1 minute, 5 minutes) and repeat notification intervals; tuning these prevents flapping and repeated noisy alerts when a metric oscillates around a threshold. Option B is correct because OCI composite alarms let you combine multiple underlying metric alarms with logical operators (AND/OR) so that cascading or correlated failures trigger a single actionable alert instead of many, directly reducing alert fatigue. Option D is correct because OCI Notifications topics support multiple subscriptions across protocols such as Email, HTTPS (webhooks), PagerDuty, Slack, and SMS, so redundant endpoints ensure the on-call engineer is reached even if one channel fails. Option C is not appropriate because manual polling of Metrics Explorer is reactive, non-scalable, and defeats the purpose of automated high-availability alerting. Option E is not appropriate because disabling IAM policies during an incident is a serious security anti-pattern; least-privilege access and break-glass procedures should be used instead.

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Rely exclusively on manual polling of the OCI Metrics Explorer console by the on-call engineer.

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Disable all IAM security policies during alarm firing to allow unrestricted troubleshooting access.

Question 9

You are designing an enterprise observability architecture where logs from hundreds of Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs) and various OCI services must be centrally aggregated. Security mandates that log data must be retained in an immutable, write-once-read-many (WORM) storage bucket for compliance purposes while simultaneously being indexed for rapid search and analysis. Which architectural pattern satisfies these requirements?

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Configure OCI Logging to export logs to an Object Storage bucket with a Retention Rule in Compliance mode, while retaining logs in the Log Group for search.. OCI Logging can export log data to Object Storage, and Object Storage Retention Rules in Compliance mode provide WORM immutability that even tenancy administrators cannot override or delete before the retention period expires. Retaining the logs in the Log Group simultaneously preserves the indexed, searchable copy for rapid analysis via the Console, CLI, or Logging Search API. This dual-write pattern satisfies both the compliance immutability mandate and the operational search requirement without compromising either.

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Configure OCI Logging to stream logs to an OCI Streaming topic, which then writes to a Block Volume with hardware-enforced encryption.

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Route all logs through an OCI API Gateway, enforce a WORM storage policy via IAM JSON syntax, and query via Logging Analytics.

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Use Oracle Database Vault to ingest log data into autonomous JSON databases configured with immutable tables.

Question 10

Your organization is implementing an alerting strategy in OCI Monitoring to avoid alert fatigue caused by transient network blips. You need to configure an alarm so that it only fires when a high CPU utilization condition persists for at least 3 consecutive evaluation periods of 5 minutes each. Which parameter in the Alarm definition should you modify?

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Configure the Alarm evaluation window and set the trigger condition based on consecutive evaluation periods exceeding the threshold.. OCI Monitoring alarms support a trigger rule that evaluates a metric against a threshold over a specified number of consecutive evaluation periods. By setting the evaluation window and requiring the condition to be met for 3 consecutive 5-minute periods, the alarm only fires on sustained high CPU, filtering out transient blips. This is the correct parameter to modify in the alarm definition.

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Modify the OCI Events service emission frequency to throttle metric collection to once every 15 minutes.

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Apply a smoothing function like 'Moving Average' directly within the OCI Notifications topic subscription settings.

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Set the Repetition Interval to 15 minutes.

Question 11

When designing an advanced alerting and monitoring strategy using OCI Monitoring Metric Query Language (MQL), which THREE practices or syntax rules should an architect follow?

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Alarms can be configured to evaluate multiple metric streams using compound expressions or grouped dimensions.. Option C is correct because OCI Monitoring alarms support compound alarm conditions built from multiple MQL expressions combined with logical operators, and MQL queries can group by dimensions (for example, group by resourceId or availabilityDomain) so a single alarm evaluates multiple metric streams. Option D is correct because a valid MQL query must begin by identifying the metric namespace and metric name, followed optionally by dimension filters, e.g. CpuUtilization[1m]{resourceId = "ocid1..."}.groupBy(...).aggregate(...); omitting the namespace and metric name makes the query invalid. Option E is correct because the interval in brackets, such as [1m] or [5m], defines the time window over which data points are aggregated (the resolution/aggregation window) before functions like mean(), max(), or sum() are applied. Option A is not correct because OCI alarms have more than two states; they can be OK, Firing, and also Pending/Reset depending on the alarm state transitions, so limiting them to Active or Inactive is inaccurate. Option B is not correct because MQL does support mathematical operations and statistical aggregation functions such as mean(), max(), min(), sum(), rate(), and percentile(), so calculations do not need to be performed before ingestion.

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An alarm in OCI Monitoring can only be in one of two states: Active or Inactive.

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MQL does not support mathematical functions or aggregations; all calculations must be performed prior to ingestion.

Question 12

An administrator is planning an enterprise cost optimization and observability strategy in OCI. Which THREE native tools or reports can be utilized to analyze cloud spend, allocate costs, and optimize resource utilization?

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OCI Cost Analysis dashboards. OCI Cost Analysis dashboards (A) are the native console tool for visualizing and analyzing cloud spend by compartment, tag, service, or time period, making them directly suited to cost analysis and allocation. OCI Detailed Usage Reports (C) are CSV files delivered to Object Storage that contain granular, line-item usage and cost data, enabling precise chargeback, allocation, and deeper offline analysis. OCI Budgets (E) let administrators set spending thresholds and receive alerts when actual or forecasted costs approach or exceed them, which is essential for ongoing cost control and optimization. The unmarked options do not belong: OCI Streaming Service Cost Estimator (B) is not a native OCI cost-analysis or observability tool, and OCI Logging Analytics Cost Module (D) is not a real native cost reporting feature for analyzing cloud spend.

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OCI Streaming Service Cost Estimator

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OCI Logging Analytics Cost Module

Question 13

An e-commerce platform runs on OCI Compute instances behind a Flexible Load Balancer. The operations team needs to detect when backend web servers return HTTP 5xx errors at an unusual rate. They want a metric that reflects the load balancer's own perspective of backend health, not application log content. Which OCI Monitoring metric should they alarm on?

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The HttpResponse5xxCount metric in the oci_lbaas namespace, aggregated by backend set. The load balancer emits metrics in the oci_lbaas namespace, including HttpResponse5xxCount, which counts server-error responses as seen by the load balancer itself. Grouping by backend set isolates the affected backends, and an alarm on this metric's rate detects anomalous 5xx behavior without depending on application logs. The other metrics describe host CPU, health-check status, or an unrelated DNS service and cannot measure backend HTTP error rates.

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The CpuUtilization metric in the oci_computeagent namespace for each backend instance

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The LoadBalancerBackendSetHealth metric emitted by the oci_lbaas namespace

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The UnhealthyBackendCount metric in the oci_healthchecks namespace

Question 14

An architect is standardizing OCI Monitoring alarms across many teams. Teams complain that alarms fire repeatedly for the same underlying incident because a metric oscillates around the threshold, and that some alarms never resolve. Which TWO alarm configuration practices address these complaints? (Choose two.)

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Set the alarm's trigger rule to use a longer evaluation window and require the metric to breach for a sustained period before firing. Flapping and non-resolving alarms are controlled by how long a breach must persist. A longer evaluation window with a sustained-breach trigger rule filters out brief oscillations, and a pending duration holds the alarm in firing before notifying so short recoveries send nothing. Severity, repeat notification, and dimension removal alter routing or visibility but not the underlying state-transition behavior that causes the complaints.

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Increase the alarm severity from WARNING to CRITICAL for every alarm so notifications are prioritized

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Remove the metric's dimensions from the alarm query so all resources are evaluated as one aggregate

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Enable the alarm's repeat notification interval so reminders are sent at fixed intervals while the alarm remains firing

Question 15

A platform team wants a single alarm to notify on-call engineers through OCI Notifications when any of three production databases exceeds 90 percent storage utilization. Each database resides in a different compartment, and all compartments belong to the same tenancy. What is the simplest correct configuration?

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Create a single alarm in any compartment using a metric query that includes the database identifiers, and route it to one Notifications topic subscribed by the on-call group. OCI Monitoring alarms are tenancy-scoped and their metric queries can span compartments, so one alarm can evaluate storage utilization for all three databases using dimension matching. Publishing to a single Notifications topic with the on-call subscription gives one notification path. Multiple alarms or an intermediary connector add complexity without benefit.

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Create one alarm per compartment but reuse the same topic, because alarms cannot query metrics outside their own compartment

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Create one alarm per database in each compartment and subscribe the on-call group to three separate topics

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Create an alarm in each compartment and use a Service Connector Hub connector to merge their outputs into one topic

Question 16

An enterprise is designing a cost observability architecture in OCI. They want to attribute cloud spend dynamically to different business units based on resource metadata tags, and they need historical trend analysis with anomaly detection. Which combination of features and tools provides the most robust solution?

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Use OCI Cost Analysis with defined tags, export Cost Reports to Object Storage, and configure Budgets with alert rules.. OCI Cost Analysis supports filtering and grouping by defined tags, enabling dynamic attribution of spend to business units based on resource metadata. Exporting Cost Reports to Object Storage provides durable historical data for trend analysis, and Budgets with alert rules deliver anomaly detection and threshold-based notifications. This combination directly satisfies the requirements for tag-based attribution, historical trends, and anomaly detection.

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Use Logging Analytics custom parsers on generated invoice PDFs stored in Object Storage.

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Use native OCI Tag Defaults and OCI Monitoring alarms on the 'Billing' metric namespace.

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Deploy OCI APM Java agents to every compute node and query the JVM memory usage to estimate spend.

Question 17

A DevOps engineer wants to monitor custom application metrics (such as active shopping cart count) emitted by microservices running on OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). Which OCI service provides the necessary API to ingest and query these custom metrics?

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OCI Monitoring Service. The OCI Monitoring Service provides the API (PostMetricData) to ingest custom metrics and the QueryMetrics API to retrieve them. It is the native service for storing and querying both built-in and custom metrics emitted by OKE workloads.

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Events Service

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OCI Logging Analytics

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Question 18

An administrator wants to analyze log data collected from various OCI resources by running complex SQL-like queries and creating visualization dashboards. Which OCI service is designed for this purpose?

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OCI Logging Analytics. OCI Logging Analytics is a machine-learning-driven log analysis service that ingests logs from many sources and lets users run SQL-like queries (Log Explorer query language), build dashboards, and detect anomalies. It is purpose-built for deep log analytics and visualization, unlike basic Logging which focuses on collection and search.

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OCI Audit Service

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OCI Health Checks

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OCI Object Storage

Question 19

An application architect is troubleshooting intermittent latency spikes in a distributed microservices application deployed across multiple OCI regions. Which OCI capability should be used to trace requests end-to-end across service boundaries?

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OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Distributed Tracing. OCI APM Distributed Tracing is designed to trace requests end-to-end across microservices and regions. It captures spans from each service, correlates them into a single trace, and provides a visual service map, making it the right tool for troubleshooting intermittent latency spikes across service boundaries.

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OCI Network Visualizer

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OCI Logging Analytics with out-of-the-box system parsers

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OCI Monitoring service anomaly detection

Question 20

You are designing an alerting strategy in OCI Monitoring. You want to avoid alert storms by ensuring that if a metric fluctuates above a threshold repeatedly, the alarm notification is sent only once every 30 minutes until the condition clears. How should you configure this?

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Configure the 'Repeat Notification' setting in the OCI Monitoring alarm definition to 30 minutes.. OCI Monitoring alarms have a 'Repeat Notification' setting that controls how often the notification is re-sent while the alarm remains in the firing state. Setting it to 30 minutes ensures that if the metric stays above threshold, the notification is sent only once every 30 minutes, preventing alert storms. This is the correct mechanism for suppressing repeated notifications.

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Set the alarm evaluation window to 30 minutes and enable metric smoothing.

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Create an OCI Events rule with a batch window of 30 minutes.

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Configure a notification suppression window in the Notifications service topic settings.