In a complicated, modern environment, how do you make sure that your application and business is performing the way that it should? How do you know when it’s time to acquire more infrastructure or maybe even refactor your app?
Metrics provide a way to track the health of your application and infrastructure over time.
Anybody who’s deployed a modern application knows that a popular whipping boy for issues is whoever provides the network infrastructure.
Tracking these metrics over time gives you important insight into how your team, infrastructure and applications are performing and can help you make the case for additional resources or time.