Prometheus quiz

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What is a Prometheus "counter" metric type used for?

1. What is a Prometheus "counter" metric type used for?
2. What does a "job" refer to in `scrape_configs`?
3. What is a "gauge" metric type used for?
4. What does `sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (handler)` do?
5. What is a Prometheus "target"?
6. What HTTP path do Prometheus targets conventionally expose metrics on?
7. What query language does Prometheus use?
8. What component actually sends notifications (Slack, email, PagerDuty) when a Prometheus alert fires?
9. What is a Prometheus "exporter"?
10. What is the purpose of the built-in `up` metric?
11. What is Grafana's typical relationship to Prometheus?
12. What configuration file defines Prometheus's scrape targets and settings?

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