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Dev tools · December 6, 2016

The Little Metrics Book

A free field guide to metrics

The Little Metrics Book launched on December 6, 2016 with 64 votes, #774 of 3,449 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

The Little Metrics Book is about metrics that we spend effort collecting, aggregating, and reasoning about to answer things we don't know yet.

Metrics are data points that we spend effort collecting, aggregating, storing, and reasoning about to answer things we don't know yet. If you take an off-the-shelf product, for a good amount of metrics, you'll be paying upwards of $10k/mo USD for collection and aggregation. After reading this book, you'll have new tools and thinking that will help you answer new questions, and you'll develop the intuition and confidence to run your own free metrics stack with systems like StatsD and Graphite. Metrics are data points that we spend effort collecting, aggregating, storing, and reasoning about to answer things we don't know yet. If you take an off-the-shelf product, for a good amount of…from leanpub.com

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