Metric

How it is used

Metrics are collected, exported, scraped, stored and shown on dashboards. Prometheus and CloudWatch are common tools. Alerts are usually based on metrics crossing a threshold.

Example sentences

1. The memory metric has been climbing for a week, which looks like a memory leak.

2. Let's add a metric for queue length so we can alert on it.

Common collocations

• collect metrics
• key metrics
• custom metric
• error rate metric
• metrics dashboard

Related terms

• monitoringContinuously collecting and checking data about systems, such as CPU use, error rates and response times, so that problems are noticed quickly.
• dashboardA screen that shows the most important metrics and charts about a system in one place, so engineers can see its health at a glance.
• alertAn automatic notification sent to engineers when a monitored value crosses a limit or something looks wrong, for example when the error rate is too high.
• observabilityHow well you can understand what is happening inside a system from the data it produces, especially logs, metrics and traces, even for problems nobody predicted.
• logA record of events written by an application or system, usually one line per event with a time, a level such as INFO or ERROR, and a message.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• metric · Software Engineering
• metric · Data Science & Analytics
• metric · Product Management

More terms: Monitoring and Logging

• tracing
• health check