Your question is Design Telemetry Collection Architecture Tradeoffs. Take a moment with it on the right.
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You are designing telemetry collection for a monitoring platform. Some customers can install host-level collectors, while others want data gathered through cloud APIs and control-plane integrations. You need to decide how these collection patterns affect downstream ML use cases such as anomaly detection, alert quality, and entity health scoring.
What architectural trade-offs do you consider when choosing between agent-based monitoring and agentless API-driven data collection?