Alerting
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Alerting — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
9 resources across 2 libraries
Study Notes(2)
SLAs and Alerting
Using Airflow's sla parameter, sla_miss_callback, and failure callbacks to detect and alert on late or broken pipelines.
Monitoring and Alerting for Pipelines
Understand how to instrument CI/CD pipelines with metrics, logs, and alerts so teams detect broken builds, slow pipelines, and failed deployments before they b…
Interview Questions(7)
What Key Metrics Should You Monitor for a Database?
The core database metrics to monitor are query latency and throughput, connection pool saturation, replication lag, cache hit ratio, disk I/O and space usage,…
How Would You Design a Metrics Monitoring System (like Prometheus)?
Design a metrics monitoring system around periodic pull-based (or push-based via a gateway) scraping of numeric time series from every service, storage in a ti…
What is Monitoring vs Observability?
Monitoring is watching a predefined set of metrics and alerts to detect known failure conditions, while observability is the broader capability to ask arbitrar…
What is Grafana and How Does it Relate to Prometheus?
Grafana is an open-source visualization and dashboarding platform that queries data sources like Prometheus, Loki, or Elasticsearch and renders their results a…
How Do You Design Effective Alerting?
Effective alerting fires only on symptoms that indicate real, actionable user-facing impact — not on every internal anomaly — and every alert should be tied to…
How Does Prometheus Alertmanager Work?
Prometheus Alertmanager is a separate service that receives firing alerts evaluated by Prometheus rule expressions, then handles deduplication, grouping, silen…
What is Synthetic Monitoring?
Synthetic monitoring proactively runs scripted, simulated user transactions against a live system on a fixed schedule from external locations, catching availab…