Metrics That Matter: Counters, Histograms, Cardinality, and Alerts

A practical two-hour session on Metrics That Matter, focused on Counters, Histograms, Cardinality, and Alerts. Attendees work through concrete engineering tradeoffs, review examples, and leave with a checklist they can apply in real team projects.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Metrics That Matter
• Apply Counters in a small working example
• Apply Histograms in a small working example
• Apply Cardinality in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.