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There are some basic performance metrics that come to mind that are also important:

Latency Uptime Throughput

And if you're working with a distributed system, you should really be using metrics to track the health of your system at the application level.



Latency, uptime and throughput for an application are non-functional requirements that should be built into your application. People like to generalize that and pawn that off to logging dashboard but I personally think that's a mistake.




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