Overview#

Metrics is the measuring of the performance and or the load of an application or system.

Metrics may be used to answer questions like:

  • How many users are on my Site? (ie on this site now there are 652 sessions)
  • How slow is the PayPal API?
  • Our LDAP Monitor
  • etc.

Metrics may be used in Monitoring

Metrics Categories#

Generally, Metrics can be placed into various categories:

Example Metrics#

  • The server this wiki is run on, the time is: 2025-09-01 AD at 20:17:06 EDT
  • This server has been up for 276d, 2h 46m 58s.
  • now there are 652 sessions
  • These are the distinct Sessions there are 10.224.0.5, 10.224.0.4(246), 10.244.1.1, 10.224.0.4(188), 10.224.0.6, 10.224.0.4(218)
  • These are the Users we know about and their Status:
User NameLogin Status
10.224.0.6, 10.224.0.4anonymous

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: