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Metrics

Goal

Section titled “Goal”

Use metrics to inspect rates, gauges, distributions, and service trends.

Workflow

Section titled “Workflow”

Open Metrics or Explore and start with the metrics source.

The Metrics screen showing self-observability metrics, a selected time series, and top metric cards.

Examples:

metrics | where name == "http.server.duration" | stats p95(value) by service, bin(auto)
metrics | where name == "process.runtime.go.goroutines" | stats max(value) by service
metrics | where temporality == "cumulative" | fields time, name, service, value, unit

Metric rows expose instrument context such as point_kind, temporality, is_monotonic, unit, scope_name, and scope_version.

Permissions

Section titled “Permissions”

Metrics require telemetry:query.

Section titled “Related Pivots”
  • Use exemplars to pivot from a metric point to a trace when exemplar data is present.
  • Pin stable metric queries to dashboards.
  • Use service filters to compare a metric across environments.
  • Convert threshold-style metric queries into alert rules.