Metrics Summary

Overview

The Metrics Summary page displays a list of your metrics reported to Datadog under a specified time frame: the past hour, day, or week. Search your metrics by name or tag using the Metric or Tag search fields:

Metric panel

Click on a metric name to display a panel with more detailed information. The metric panel displays key information for a given metric.

Metric name

The name of your metric in the metric explorer, dashboards, etc.

Number of distinct metrics

A metric can correspond to multiple distinct metrics depending on its associated tags. Learn more in the custom metrics documentation.

Hosts

The total number of hosts reporting a metric along with a list of hosts. Click on any host to filter the metrics summary or view the filtered metric in the metrics explorer.

Metrics metadata

The metadata attached to your metric. Most of the metadata can be edited on the metric summary page or with the Datadog API.

Metric description

The metric description helps you understand what a metric does. Descriptions are pre-populated for metrics coming from supported integrations. Use this field to update the descriptions for your custom metrics.

Metric unit

The unit for your metric (byte, second, request, query, etc.). See the metric unit page for more details.

When submitting custom metrics to Datadog, it is possible to change the unit of measurement that displays when hovering over the metric in your graph. Note: This does not change how a metric graph is displayed—it only changes the units of measurement that raw values are considered as, when hovering over a metric. Formatting is automatically applied for readability. For example, bytes (B) may be displayed as kibibytes (KiB).