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What Additional Metrics If System Frequently Fails

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If all the standard metrics (I/O, disk, CPU, etc.) are already provided, what additional information would you gather from the system for a site that frequently goes down?

Asked in the phone screen as an open-ended troubleshooting prompt. Focus on the troubleshooting stage: explain which additional signals you would collect, how you would correlate them, and how they would narrow root-cause hypotheses.