Design a Metrics Storage Platform
Company: Okta
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates system-design and distributed-systems skills for time-series metrics storage, focusing on data modeling for counters, gauges, and histograms, ingestion and query pipelines, API design, sharding and storage formats, retention/compaction, availability, and multi-tenant considerations.
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