An organization has a large number of repositories in their Git entity provider. They notice that the catalog is taking a long time to update after a change, and the Backstage instance's CPU usage is consistently high. They want to improve update speed without over-provisioning their infrastructure. What is the most effective strategy?

Disable the schedule and rely on manual refresh

Reduce the number of repositories in the provider

Use a more specific location filter to reduce the data being processed

Increase the frequency of the ingestion schedule

A company uses Backstage to catalog their software. They have a central Git repository that contains all their catalog-info.yaml files. They want to set up automated ingestion. Which configuration is the most appropriate?

Use the static catalog configuration to list all entities manually

Set up a custom API entity provider to read the repository

Configure a Git entity provider with a location pointing to the central repository

Configure a schedule but do not specify a provider

A team is designing a custom entity provider to ingest data from a legacy system. The system's API is slow and can only handle a limited number of requests per minute. The data is also very large, and the provider is timing out during the fetch. What is the most effective way to address this?

Reduce the schedule frequency to give the API more time to recover

Increase the timeout value in the provider's configuration

Fetch all data in a single request and hope it succeeds

Implement pagination and fetch data in smaller batches

A team wants to ingest catalog data from a Git repository that is hosted on a private GitHub Enterprise server. They have set up the entity provider and provided a personal access token. However, the ingestion is failing with a 401 Unauthorized error. What is the most likely cause?

The personal access token does not have the correct permissions to read the repository

The catalog-info.yaml file has a syntax error

The entity provider is not configured with a schedule

The Backstage instance is not connected to the corporate network

What is a likely symptom of malformed data in an ingested catalog entity?

The external source system stops responding

The entity appears in the catalog but with missing or incorrect fields

The catalog database becomes corrupted

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21expert · hard
An organization has a large number of repositories in their Git entity provider. They notice that the catalog is taking a long time to update after a change, and the Backstage instance's CPU usage is consistently high. They want to improve update speed without over-provisioning their infrastructure. What is the most effective strategy?
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22application · medium
A company uses Backstage to catalog their software. They have a central Git repository that contains all their catalog-info.yaml files. They want to set up automated ingestion. Which configuration is the most appropriate?
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23expert · hard
A team is designing a custom entity provider to ingest data from a legacy system. The system's API is slow and can only handle a limited number of requests per minute. The data is also very large, and the provider is timing out during the fetch. What is the most effective way to address this?
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24application · medium
A team wants to ingest catalog data from a Git repository that is hosted on a private GitHub Enterprise server. They have set up the entity provider and provided a personal access token. However, the ingestion is failing with a 401 Unauthorized error. What is the most likely cause?
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25foundation · easy
What is a likely symptom of malformed data in an ingested catalog entity?
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