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Instrumentation And Exporters practice questions

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▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
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▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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Instrumentation And Exporters questions

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Question 1hardmultiple choice

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Your application has a short-lived batch job that finishes before the Prometheus server can scrape it. What architectural component should be used?

Trap 1: Prometheus API

The API is for querying, not metric ingestion from ephemeral jobs.

Trap 2: Alertmanager

Alertmanager handles alerts, not metric collection.

Trap 3: node_exporter

Node exporter is for long-running processes.

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A
Prometheus API
Why wrong: The API is for querying, not metric ingestion from ephemeral jobs.
B
Pushgateway
Pushgateway provides an intermediary for short-lived jobs to push metrics.
C
Alertmanager
Why wrong: Alertmanager handles alerts, not metric collection.
D
node_exporter
Why wrong: Node exporter is for long-running processes.

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Instrumentation And Exporters questions

Your application has a short-lived batch job that finishes before the Prometheus server can scrape it. What architectural component should be used?

You need to track the number of requests received by your application. Which metric type should you choose?

Which action should be avoided when creating labels for custom metrics?

When implementing a custom exporter, what format must the output follow to be correctly scraped by Prometheus?

You are using the blackbox_exporter to monitor an HTTP endpoint. Which module configuration is required to check the HTTP status code?

A developer wants to expose a metric that represents the current memory usage of a process. Which type is most appropriate?

You need to monitor the duration of database queries. Which metric type is best for calculating quantiles on the server side?

You are monitoring a Linux server and need to track CPU usage. Which exporter is the standard choice for exposing hardware and OS metrics?

What is the default port used by node_exporter?

When running node_exporter, how can you disable specific collectors like 'textfile'?

You are instrumenting a Go application. What is the standard way to register a metric?

A Histogram has buckets [0.1, 0.5, 1, 5]. A request takes 0.7 seconds. Which buckets will be incremented?

What is the effect of using a 'Summary' metric with client-side quantiles?

You want to monitor the status of a specific SSL certificate via blackbox_exporter. Which module is designed for this?

When writing a custom exporter in Python, what is the most common way to expose the metrics?

You need to expose metrics from a legacy application that only logs to a file. What should you do?

What is the purpose of the 'le' label in a Histogram?

When creating a custom exporter, which component is responsible for scraping the data?

When using the Pushgateway, what happens if you push a metric with the same name and labels as an existing one?

What is the impact of naming a metric starting with an underscore?

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