Metrics

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 2897 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:

• Internal Metrics
• External Metrics

Example Metrics

• The server this wiki is run on, the time is: 2026-10-26 AD \
• This server has been up for 9h 31m 57s.
• now there are 2897 sessions
• These are the distinct Sessions there are
• These are the Users we know about and their Status:

amdWiki Telemetry

For information on the metrics built into this wiki, see amdWiki Telemetry.