Prometheus quiz

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What does a "job" refer to in `scrape_configs`?

1. What does a "job" refer to in `scrape_configs`?
2. What is Grafana's typical relationship to Prometheus?
3. What does every Prometheus time series consist of?
4. What is a "gauge" metric type used for?
5. What does `scrape_interval` control?
6. Why should you avoid graphing a raw counter metric directly?
7. What does "pull-based" metrics collection mean in Prometheus?
8. What is Prometheus?
9. What component actually sends notifications (Slack, email, PagerDuty) when a Prometheus alert fires?
10. What is a Prometheus "counter" metric type used for?
11. What does the PromQL expression `rate(http_requests_total[5m])` compute?
12. What is a Prometheus "exporter"?

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