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Question
Your monitoring/alerting system itself is down or degraded — you've lost visibility into the rest of the platform. How do you handle flying blind?
What a strong answer looks like
Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.
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