Metrics are efficient numerical data points, offering significant performance boosts for storage, processing, and retrieval compared to events. Splunk excels at leveraging metrics by correlating them with event data, enabling rapid identification of "what" happened (metrics) and "why" (logs), facilitating swift action. Integrating metrics into your data ingestion strategy dramatically improves monitoring and alerting speed. Found across servers, applications, and IoT sensors, metrics provide invaluable insights for proactive operations, driving faster decision-making and operational efficiency within Splunk environments.

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