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Metrics
This guide aims to explain basics about metrics.
What are metrics
When you do monitoring on your services, servers, APIs or others, you can get raw data. These datas may be a response time to a request, the number of queries handled in a minute, etc.
The metrics are these raw datas. Using the Cachet's API you can send the datas about what you are monitoring to Cachet.
What can do metrics for you
Having good metrics to show may be great for customers or partners.
You have a big webservice that is under pressure? So it's important to have a short response time. A metric could show to your users that the webservice is responding fast! Imagine, you have a metric named "Response time". Every 10 seconds you call your webservice, and send the response time to the Cachet's API, in the metric. On your status page you'll be able to see the average response time for a minute for example.
Doing so, your users would see that during the last 10 minutes your response time was worst than previously, and it begins to being better.