Question

Your operations team wants to build a dashboard that shows aggregated CPU and memory utilization trends across all pods over time, and to trigger an alert when memory usage crosses a threshold for 5 minutes. Which observability signal and tool combination is best suited for this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Metrics collected and stored by Prometheus, queried for time-series aggregation and alerting

Answer

Logs aggregated in a centralized logging backend and searched for utilization strings

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Distributed traces captured via OpenTelemetry to follow requests across services

Answer

Container image scanning reports exported on each deployment