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In today’s data-driven world, the ability to collect and query data from multiple sources has become a very important consideration. With the rise of IoT, cloud computing and distributed systems, organizations face the challenge of handling diverse data streams effectively. It’s common to have multiple databases/data storage options for that data. For many large companies, the days of storing everything in the singular database are in the past.

I’ve had a swimming pool at my house in Massachusetts since 2016. One of the problems that pool owners like myself face when we go on vacation or leave for several days is evaporation from the pool and the water level dropping below the skimmers. This can happen due to sunlight and warm temperatures. It can also happen when temperatures drop at night and the pool is being heated — the water temperature is warmer than the air, causing the water to evaporate.

Monitoring the key metrics of your application’s performance are essential to keep your software applications running smoothly as one of the key elements underpinning application performance monitoring. In this article, we will cover many of the key metrics that you should strongly consider monitoring to ensure that your next software engineering project remains fully performant.