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Analyzing metrics
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability
Analyzing metrics
- [Instructor] Mathematical analysis of different metric types like sums, rates, percentiles, and averages provide valuable insights into the behavior and performance of systems. Sums are straightforward to analyze mathematically, you simply add up all the individual data points within a specific timeframe. Summing metrics is useful when you want to keep track of the total count or quantity of events over a period. For example, you can count the number of requests served by a web server in an hour to understand overall traffic. Rates involve dividing the change in quantity by the change in time. Rates are useful when you want to measure how something changes over time. For example, you can calculate the rate of incoming requests per minute to understand the request space. Next, the average, or mean, is calculated by summing all the data points and dividing by the number of data points. Averages are useful for finding the…
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