The observability infrastructure question. Interviewers want you to separate the three telemetry types, choose storage that survives massive write volume, and design alerting that fires fast without drowning on-call in noise. Here is the pipeline with retention and cardinality math.
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The observability infrastructure question. Interviewers want you to separate the three telemetry types, choose storage that survives massive write volume, and design alerting that fires fast without drowning on-call in noise. Here is the pipeline with retention and cardinality math.
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