Design a Realtime Monitoring & Alerting System
Collect metrics from a large fleet, store them as time series, serve dashboards, evaluate alert rules continuously and page an on-call human — a system whose job is to keep working when everything it watches is not.
How the round runs
Hard · 5 stages · 14 questions · 60 min
~3 min
Requirements Gathering
lists
~3 min
API Design
api rows
~20 min
High-Level Design
whiteboard
~3 min
Database Design
schema
~31 min
Deep Dives
whiteboard
Set up your round
Level
Interviewer
Duration
Mid-Level · Standard · 60 min