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Medium Site Reliability Engineer questions

34 questions · 10 points each for a correct first answer.

easymediumhard
  1. 1.Using rate() on a countermedium
  2. 2.Why add jitter to retries?medium
  3. 3.Which alert should page?medium
  4. 4.Percentiles vs average latencymedium
  5. 5.Circuit breaker half-open statemedium
  6. 6.The incident commandermedium
  7. 7.PodDisruptionBudgetmedium
  8. 8.p99 latency across all instancesmedium
  9. 9.No space left, but disk is not fullmedium
  10. 10.Deleted the log, space not freedmedium
  11. 11.Reading vmstat outputmedium
  12. 12.Cannot assign requested addressmedium
  13. 13.Alerting when a job disappearsmedium
  14. 14.The for clause in alert rulesmedium
  15. 15.Inhibition in Alertmanagermedium
  16. 16.A label that broke Prometheusmedium
  17. 17.Why recording rules?medium
  18. 18.Why run an OpenTelemetry Collector?medium
  19. 19.Traces broken between servicesmedium
  20. 20.Exit code 137 in Kubernetesmedium
  21. 21.HPA shows unknown CPUmedium
  22. 22.A pod stuck in Pendingmedium
  23. 23.Terraform state lockingmedium
  24. 24.Unexpected changes in a planmedium
  25. 25.Counting errors with LogQLmedium
  26. 26.Reading a slow tracemedium
  27. 27.k6 thresholdsmedium
  28. 28.A script that hangs forevermedium
  29. 29.Timeouts in Go clientsmedium
  30. 30.Errors during every rolloutmedium
  31. 31.Budget spent, release plannedmedium
  32. 32.Timeouts with a healthy databasemedium
  33. 33.Catching certificate expirymedium
  34. 34.Cutting Kubernetes cost safelymedium