Interview Questions & Answer for Prometheus

What is Prometheus? What are some of Prometheus’s main features?

Describe Prometheus architecture and components

Can you compare Prometheus to other solutions like InfluxDB for example?

What is an Alert?

Describe the following Prometheus components:

Prometheus server

Push Gateway

Alert Manager

What is an Instance? What is a Job?

What core metrics types Prometheus supports?

What is an exporter? What is it used for?

Which Prometheus best practices are you familiar with?. Name at least three

How to get total requests in a given period of time?

What HA in Prometheus means?

How do you join two metrics?

How to write a query that returns the value of a label?

How do you convert cpu_user_seconds to cpu usage in percentage?

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