Code Room
System designHardsd-p127
Subject ObservabilityLevel Senior–Staff~45 minCommon in Reliability & on-call interviewsIndustries Technology

Question

Design a unified observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, and traces from a large fleet and lets engineers correlate across all three to debug issues.

What a strong answer looks like

Clarify scale and constraints first. Propose a clean component breakdown, then go deep on the hard parts — data model, bottlenecks, consistency, failure modes — and name the trade-offs you are making.

Narrate your design
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Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.