Question

A cloud operations team is investigating intermittent latency complaints on a payment API. Their monitoring platform collects CPU and memory metrics at a 5-minute interval, but the reported slowdowns seem to last only 30 to 60 seconds. Dashboards show all resources well within normal ranges during the incident windows. What is the MOST effective change to help the team capture the cause of these transient events?

Accepted Answer

Enable high-resolution (e.g., 1-second or 10-second) metric collection on the affected resources

Answer

Increase the retention period of the existing 5-minute metrics to 90 days

Answer

Raise the CPU alarm threshold so fewer alerts are generated during peaks

Answer

Switch the dashboard aggregation from average to sum for all metrics