Raw metric descriptions

Once you've received your app's raw metrics export, you can build queries to visualize the metrics in your monitoring tool, like DataDog or New Relic.

Before you do that, refer to this glossary to understand better what specific metrics mean and which PubNub APIs they refer to:

• pubnub.http_status - Contains most or all tags listed in this page

• customer - Unambiguous name for the customer account tied to a specific subscribe key

• api - Name of the API called

  • auth-grant - Authorization grant call (Access Manager v2)
  • channel-registration - Channel group registration
  • files.publish-file - File Sharing API (publish call)
  • history - History API
  • message-actions - Message Reactions API
  • pam-grant - Authorization grant call (Access Manager v3 POST)
  • presence - Presence API
  • publish - Publish API
  • run_after - Functions that run asynchronously after a publish call
  • run_before - Functions that run synchronously (blocking) before a publish call
  • signal - Signal API
  • subscribe - Subscribe API

• status - Precise HTTP response status code returned from the API call

  • 200 - Ok
  • 403 - Not authorized
  • 404 - Not found (common when we try to find a run_after call)
  • 499 - Client disconnected before the completed return

• status_class- General class of the HTTP status code

  • 2xx - Success
  • 3xx - Redirection
  • 4xx - Client error
  • 5xx - Server error

• region - PubNub region of origin for the metric in the cloud provider nomenclature

  • us-east-1 - Virginia region
  • us-west-1 - California region
  • eu-central-1 - Frankfurt region
  • ap-northeast-1 - Tokyo region
  • ap-south-1 - Mumbai region