Metric template

Metrics are defined using a YAML manifest with the following structure:

metrics:
  - name: "cpu_util"
    description: "cpu utilization"
    unit: "percent"
  - name: "mem_util"
    description: "memory utilization"
    unit: "percent"

and properties:

Field	Type	Value restrictions	Is required	Default Value	Description
name	string	no spaces are allowed	TRUE		The name of the metric
unit	string	A supported unit or a custom unit (see supported units of measure)			The unit of measure of the metric
description	string		TRUE		A description characterizing the metric

Supported units of measure

The supported units of measure for metrics are:

Type	Units
Temporal units	nanoseconds microseconds milliseconds seconds minutes hours
Units of infomation	bits kilobits megabits gigabit terabit petabit bytes kilobytes megabytes gigabytes terabytes petabytes
Others	percent

Notice that supported units of measure are automatically scaled for visualization purposes. In particular, for units of information, Akamas uses a base 2 scaling for bytes, i.e., 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes, and so on. Other units of measure are only scaled up using millions or billions (e.g., 124000000 custom units become 124 Mln custom units).