Metrics provide numerical data over time to help you monitor application and infrastructure behavior. SigNoz enables you to collect, query, and visualize metrics from diverse sources, including OpenTelemetry SDKs, the OTel Collector, and Prometheus.
Use this section to find guides for sending data, exploring metrics, and setting up dashboards and alerts.
Key capabilities
- Flexible ingestion: Collect metrics from applications, infrastructure, and existing Prometheus setups. SigNoz also derives APM metrics from traces automatically.
- Interactive exploration: Use the Metrics Explorer to query and visualize data with a visual builder or advanced query languages like PromQL and ClickHouse SQL.
- Dashboards and Alerts: Build custom dashboards or use pre-built templates. Configure alerts to notify your team of anomalies.
- Unified context: Correlate metrics with traces and logs for faster root cause analysis.
Get started
- Send metrics to SigNoz — Start ingesting metrics.
- APM metrics from traces — Leverage automatic metrics from traces.
Work with metrics
- Use Metrics Explorer — Query and visualize your data.
- Query Builder — Use the visual builder to create queries.
- Manage dashboards — Create and organize dashboards.
- Configure alerts — Set up metric-based alerts.
- Infrastructure monitoring — Monitor hosts and Kubernetes clusters.
- Understanding Metrics Billing and Reducing Costs — Learn how cardinality affects billing and how to optimize costs.
Concepts and reference
- Metric types and aggregations — Understand Counters, Gauges, and Histograms.
- Querying Metrics — Query metrics using Query Builder, ClickHouse SQL, or PromQL.
- PromQL guide — Write Prometheus-style queries.
- ClickHouse SQL guide — Use SQL for advanced analytics.
- Metrics Query API — API reference for querying SigNoz metrics.
