PCA (Prometheus Certified Associate) sample exam question with answer 567
Question:
Let job node designate a Node Exporter scrape with instances node1, node2 and node3.
Which of the following queries selects the value of the up metric for job node and instance node1?
- SELECT up FROM tsdb WHERE job="node" and target="node1"
- up{job="node", instance="node1"}
- up{job="node" instance="node1"}
- SELECT up FROM tsdb WHERE job="node" and instance="node1"
Answer:
B - is the correct answer. More at
instant-vector-selectors
A, D - are incorrect as these queries are written in SQL syntax whereas Prometheus has a custom query language called PromQL with a completely different syntax
C - is incorrect as this query is missing a comma between the two label selectors