Monitoring & Alerting Questions

Summary

'How would you set up monitoring for a new service?' or 'what makes a good alert?' — testing Phase 11's observability judgment, not just tool familiarity.

• 1Review Phase 11 and practice explaining the 3 pillars (metrics, logs, traces) and when each helps.
• 2Prepare to discuss what makes an alert actionable versus noisy.
• 3Practice explaining SLIs/SLOs/error budgets in plain, non-jargon language.