Have you ever been on call before? Did you like it? Did you ever miss a page?

When have you gone over and above at work? If you had to do it over, would you do it again? Why or why not?

Have you ever done something on the job that you were really proud of, but no one else really knew about?

What does being awesome at your job mean to you?

Based on our current website (or ask about a past project or site they worked on – any example will do) what is the minimum set of things you should monitor? What is the optimum set? What has worked well in practice?

Have you ever needed more monitoring and didn’t have it? If so how did you get around the problem?

Have you ever setup a monitoring system like Nagios, Munin, Zabbix, etc? If so, what were some of the things you learned from the process? Any changes or improvements you would have made?