What distinguishes a metric alert from a log alert in terms of latency and cost?
- A Log alerts are faster and cheaper
- B Metric alerts evaluate pre-aggregated data with lower latency and cost; log alerts are more flexible but slower (correct answer)
- C They are identical
- D Metric alerts cannot use dimensions
Shortcut: Platform metrics are pre-aggregated, so metric alerts evaluate in near real time at low cost. Log alerts run queries on a schedule, adding latency and query cost in exchange for expressiveness.