Your logs are rich enough to debug incidents and also rich enough to create a privacy risk. How would you handle that tradeoff?

Instruction: Describe how you would balance observability with privacy and data minimization.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would balance observability with privacy and data minimization.

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I would treat observability itself as a controlled surface. The right answer is not zero logging, but logging that is...

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