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22 package org.openecomp.appc.metricservice.metric;
26 * a measure of system parameter at the current moment. Each metric is identified by name.
27 * In general case, a metric just reflects its (almost) real-time value and is not responsible for maintaining its historical data.
28 * One that needs to build series of a metric values for statistical/analytic purposes should query the value and store it for further processing.
29 * Metrics can be of different types - counters, timers etc.
30 * The initial service implementation supports simple (flat) counters only.
33 public interface Metric {