What is the difference between blackbox and whitebox monitoring?

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Blackbox probes a system from outside as a user would (HTTP checks, ping) with no internal knowledge; whitebox uses internal instrumentation (metrics, logs) exposed by the system itself

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Blackbox is for on-prem; whitebox is for cloud

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Blackbox monitoring is unauthenticated; whitebox requires credentials

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Whitebox is legacy terminology for agent-based monitoring

What is the difference between blackbox and whitebox monitoring?

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