Which monitoring approach sends a stream of metrics to a central collector for visualization and alerting?
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Why "Push-based telemetry (Prometheus push, OpenTelemetry, etc.)" is the right answer
Modern observability stacks ingest pushed telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) for near-real-time analysis. Polling can miss bursts. On-demand audit and manual review don't scale. Both push and poll have valid use cases.
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