Metrics play a fundamental role in cloud computing, enabling the monitoring, optimization, and cost-effective operation of resources. They contribute to performance enhancement, efficient resource utilization, and overall operational excellence in the dynamic and scalable cloud environment. The Control Plane platform facilitates the collection of custom metrics from workloads, allowing applications to emit Prometheus-formatted metrics at a specified path and port. This configuration option extends to each container in a workload, providing flexibility in metrics management.