App Metrics module

[agriffard]

I really like https://www.app-metrics.io/ that allows you to manage metrics like counters, gauges, and data series in general.

We could find different uses of library:

• Create dashboards and graphs.
• Manage global counters with tags.
• Create workflow activities to send data.

If it is not something that we want in the core solution, I could do it in a custom module.

[sebastienros]

• API to gather metrics, that any module could use to store data. For instance the Ecommerce module would record when a user add an item in the cart, or fulfills a sale. Or when a user logs in, successfully or not. This is what AppMetrix does, and also knows how to store these in different stores.
• Tools to configure visualizations of the stored data, in dashboard for instance. A user would then create a KPI for sales. But a module could also provide pre-defined templates based on the data it gathers. We could limit it to a small set of widgets, as more advanced usages would require dedicated apps (Kibana, Graphana, PowerBI)

[agriffard]

A new Metrics Api will be added in .NET 6, based on open telemetry:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/new-dotnet-6-apis-driven-by-the-developer-community/#new-metrics-api

[stoyandimov]

Yep, it's there now: Collect metrics and there is already Prometheus exporter for OpenTelemetry