# Metrics Summary

The Metrics Explorer provides a concise view of all metrics ingested by the system, along with all tags and their possible values within the selected time range. You can review one metric at a time.

## Determine details of a specific metric

1. Navigate to the **Metrics Summary** by clicking the **Metrics** tab, and selecting **Summary**:

2. The metrics summary interface enables you to:
   
   
   
   1. Search for the metric by name
   2. Select a metric from the list

3. Choose a metric; here, we look at the detail of metric `aws_logs_call_count`.

4. Under **Metrics Details**,

1. Notice the name of the metric, `aws_logs_call_count`, appears.  
      + To save the name of the metric, click the  (Copy) icon.
   2. To see how the metric changes over time, examine its performance and variability, and perform _ad-hoc_ analysis, click , **Open Metrics Explorer**.
      
      See [Metrics Explorer](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.5.0/metrics-explorer/).

5. In the **Metadata** section of the details, note these:
   
   1. **Metric type** identifies if the metric is a **_counter_**, a **_gauge_**, or a **_histogram_**. See [Metric types](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.5.0/metric-type/).
      
      The metric `aws_logs_call_count` is a gauge.
   2. **Unit** specifies the measurement unit of the metric. If not specified, Kloudfuse uses **_None_**.
   3. **Description**: \[Optional\] Describes the metric.

6. In the **Unique Tags and Series Cardinality** section of the details,
   
   1. **Unique Tags** reports the number of unique tags.  
      Here, the metric `aws_logs_call_count` has 7 unique tags.
   2. **Series Cardinality** reports the cardinality of the series.  
      Here, the metric `aws_logs_call_count` has 6.
   3. **Search tags** enables you to find a particular tag in a very large number of tags.
   4. The **Tag Key** table lists the unique tags by name, along with the number of existing values as **Count**.

7. To see the possible values of a tag, click that tag.
   
   Here, the interface displays the 5 **Tag Values** for the `resource` key.
   
   Click on a **Tag value** to choose one of these actions:
   
   - **Open the Metrics Explorer** interface that plots the metric with the specified tag and value.
   - **Copy value to Clipboard**.

## Change the time interval

By default, **Metric Summary** shows the active metrics for the **Last hour**. To see the details of metrics for a different time interval, click **Last hour** and proceed to [change the time interval](https://docs.kloudfuse.com/platform/3.5.0/metrics-time/#time-interval) in the time/calendar picker.

## Refresh screen

To refresh the **Metric summary**, click the **Refresh** icon, , at the top right of the interface.