Introduction

The Genesis Platform provides metrics both on the framework and at the application level.

Framework metrics are provided out of the box. Once these have been enabled, they provide base-line information. You can build on top of this to provide application-specific metrics.

Metrics allow in-depth monitoring of running applications and early detection of issues.

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It is recommended that you always enable metrics in production applications. This helps early detection of problems and gives you invaluable context if an incident occurs.

In this section, we shall:

• go through the process of enabling metrics in an application
• examine metrics on the standard services: Data Server and Request Server
• show how to add custom metrics to applications