Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

Business metrics

Let's start again with the general definition: business metrics are about measuring and assessing business operations and transactions. You can use this information to determine if your application meets the previously-set business expectations.

An example: your application is a video streaming service. Typical business metrics for this would be:

• A measure of the number of videos uploaded or downloaded over a period of time
• A measure of the frequency at which videos are searched
• A measure of how often videos have been watched successfully

Let's go back to the definition and go deeper into the details: a business metric typically includes telemetry inspection and aggregation at the enterprise level, as well as real-time ...