Metrics are numerical measurements collected from cloud services at regular, defined intervals. They capture things like how much capacity a service is using, how quickly it's responding, or how much work it's handling. Because they're tracked over time, they give you a clear view of how a service performs and how its behavior shifts throughout the day.

Metrics are valuable because they're simple to visualize, easy to compare to what's happened before, and can be used to trigger alerts when they move outside expected ranges. They can help you understand the impact of deployments or configuration updates. They also provide essential insights into the health of your cloud services.

Akamai Cloud Pulse automatically collects and stores metrics for your cloud services. These metrics can be visualized through dashboards, inspected at the entity level, and retrieved using the API.

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Metrics are currently in beta for the Databases service only. Support for additional services is planned for future releases.

Access metrics

You can access metrics data using Cloud Manager or the Linode API.

Centralized dashboards: Navigate to Monitor > Metrics and select a dashboard from the dropdown list. Dashboards consolidates metrics from multiple entities. Use the filters to adjust the time range and narrow the list of included entities.

**Entity details page: **Open the details page for a specific entity (for example, a database cluster) and select the Metrics tab. This page provides metrics information for the specific entity only.

Linode API: use the Linode API to retrieve metrics programmatically. See the API reference for details.