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# Metrics
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This guide aims to explain basics about metrics.
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## What are metrics
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When you do monitoring on your services, servers, APIs or others, you can get
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raw data. These datas may be a response time to a request, the number of queries
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handled in a minute, etc.
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The metrics are these raw datas. Using the [Cachet's API][1] you can send the datas
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about what you are monitoring to Cachet.
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## What can do metrics for you
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Having good metrics to show may be great for customers or partners.
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You have a big webservice that is under pressure? So it's important to have a
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short response time. A metric could show to your users that the webservice is
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responding fast!
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Imagine, you have a metric named "Response time". Every 10 seconds you call your
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webservice, and send the response time to the Cachet's API, in the metric. On
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your status page you'll be able to see the average response time for a minute
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for example.
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Doing so, your users would see that during the last 10 minutes your response
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time was worst than previously, and it begins to being better.
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[1]: api-documentation.md
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