Metric categories

Learn about metric categories in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Metric categories for realms us0 and us1

The following metric categories are used in the realms us0 and us1:


Billing class	Metrics included
Custom metrics	Metrics reported to Splunk Observability Cloud outside of those reported by default, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics might result in increased data ingest costs.
APM Monitoring MetricSets	Includes metrics from APM Monitoring MetricSets. See Learn about Monitoring MetricSets in Splunk APM for more information.
RUM Monitoring MetricSets	Includes metrics from RUM Monitoring MetricSets. See Filter and troubleshoot with custom tags for more information.
Default/bundled metrics (Infrastructure)	Host Container Bundled Additional metrics sent through infrastructure monitoring public cloud integrations that aren’t attributed to specific hosts or containers.
Default/bundled metrics (APM)	Host Container Identity Bundled Tracing Runtime Synthetics
Other metrics	Internal metrics

Metric categories for other realms

The following metric categories are used for any realms that aren’t us0 or us1:


Category type	Description
0	No information about the category type of the metric. Note: Category type information for metrics is only available after 03/16/2023. Any metrics created before that date has category type `0`.
1	Host
2	Container
3	Custom Metrics reported to Splunk Observability Cloud outside of those reported by default, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics might result in increased data ingest costs.
4	Hi-resolution
5	Internal
6	Tracing metrics
7	Bundled In host-based subscription plans, additional metrics sent through Infrastructure Monitoring public cloud integrations that are not attributed to specific hosts or containers.
8	APM hosts
9	APM container
10	APM identity
11	APM bundled metrics
12	APM Troubleshooting MetricSets This category is not part of the report.
13	APM Monitoring MetricSets
14	Infrastructure Monitoring function
15	APM function
16	RUM Troubleshooting MetricSets This category is not part of the report.
17	RUM Monitoring MetricSets
18	Network Explorer metrics
19	Runtime metrics
20	Synthetics metrics

Note: In subscription plans based on metric time series (MTS), all metrics are categorized as custom metrics and billed accordingly.

Note: Usage analytics doesn’t support APM Monitoring MetricSets, RUM Monitoring MetricSets, or default/bundles APM metrics, so you can’t view these metrics in usage analytics. To learn more about usage analytics, see Analyze your metric usage in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Identify and track the category of a metric

In host-based plans, the category of a metric might impact billing.

To keep track of the type of metrics you’re ingesting, Splunk Observability Cloud provides you with different tools and reports:

Custom metric report. It shows the information on MTS associated with data points sent from hosts or containers, as well as information related to custom, high-resolution, and bundled MTS, for a specified date.
Metric Pipeline Management’s usage report. It gives a detailed breakdown of your MTS creation and usage.
Track specific org metrics with custom metric information. See more in View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.

Use Signalflow to look for a metric’s category

You can use SignalFlow to query for the sf_mtsCategoryType dimension, which indicates the metric category.

For example, to look for the top 10 custom metrics you’re ingesting, use the following query with the * character:

A = data('*', filter=filter('sf_mtsCategoryType', '3')).count(by="sf_metric").top(10).publish(label='A')

To only look at specific metrics, use their specific metric name.

Learn more in SignalFlow and analytics.