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slug: /metrics
title: Metrics
description: Sumo Logic metrics can measure infrastructure, application performance or custom business and operational data.
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  - metrics
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/metrics/
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Metrics are numeric samples of data collected over time. They can measure infrastructure, such as operating system performance, disk activity, application performance, or custom business and operational data that is coded into your organization’s applications.

Metrics are an effective tool for monitoring, troubleshooting, and identifying the root causes of problems. They can help your organization:

* Gain end-to-end visibility into application performance.
* Track key performance indicators (KPIs) over time.
* Determine if an outage has occurred and restore service.
* Determine why an event occurred and how it might be prevented in the future.

:::training Sumo Logic Academy

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* **Self-paced**: [Metrics Analytics Self-Paced](https://learn.sumologic.com/path/sumo-observability/metrics-analytics-self-paced)
* **Instructor-led virtual classes**: [Certifications: Metric Analytics](https://www.sumologic.com/learn/training?_certifications=metrics-analytics#section-2)
:::

:::sumo
To interact with other Sumo Logic users, post feedback, or ask a question about metrics, visit the [Sumo Logic Community](https://community.sumologic.com/s/topic/0TOE0000000gA6tOAE/Unified%20Logs%20and%20Metrics). 
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/introduction')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Intro to Metrics</h4></a>
  <p>Use Metrics for monitoring, troubleshooting, and identifying root causes.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/metrics-queries')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Metrics Queries</h4></a>
  <p>Sumo Logic metric query operators and metrics queries.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/metrics-operators')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Metrics Operators</h4></a>
  <p>Metrics operator syntax rules and examples.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Managing Metrics Volume</h4></a>
  <p>Metric ingestion and storage, metric data limits, and metrics throttling.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/metric-rules-editor')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Metrics Rules Editor</h4></a>
  <p>The Metrics rules editor allows you to tag metrics with data derived from the metric identifier.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/metrics-transformation-rules')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Metrics Transformation Rules</h4></a>
  <p>Control how long raw metrics are retained.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/logs-to-metrics')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Logs-to-Metrics</h4></a>
  <p>Set up rules to extract or create metrics from log data.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/metrics-dpm')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Metrics Data Ingestion</h4></a>
  <p>View detailed information about your metrics data consumption.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/kubernetes-metrics')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Kubernetes Metrics</h4></a>
  <p>Kubernetes metrics are collected when you deploy our Kubernetes collection.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/source-and-collector-cardinality')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Source and Collector Wise Cardinality</h4></a>
  <p>Identify and analyze source and collector-level cardinality to pinpoint high-cardinality sources.</p>
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