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Metrics
editMetrics
editMetrics contain application metric data captured by an APM agent.
Metric Schema
editThe APM Server uses JSON Schema for validating requests. The specification for metrics is defined below:
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
"$id": "docs/spec/metricsets/common_metricset.json",
"type": "object",
"description": "Metric data captured by an APM agent",
"properties": {
"samples": {
"type": ["object"],
"description": "Sampled application metrics collected from the agent.",
"patternProperties": {
"^[^*\"]*$": {
"$ref": "sample.json"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"tags": {
"$ref": "../tags.json"
}
},
"required": ["samples"]
}
{
"$id": "docs/spec/metricsets/v2_metricset.json",
"type": "object",
"description": "Data captured by an agent representing an event occurring in a monitored service",
"allOf": [
{ "$ref": "common_metricset.json" },
{ "$ref": "../timestamp_epoch.json"},
{"required": ["timestamp"], "properties": {"timestamp": { "type": "integer" }}}
]
}