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White-Box vs. Black-Box Monitoring

Operate & Monitor (OM)

DevOps Prompts10/19/2025
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Distinguish between White-Box Monitoring (internal metrics) and Black-Box Monitoring (external behavior). Provide one example of a key metric derived from each type of monitoring for a web service.

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