Discover your current metric usage and data trends effectively by exploring **Metrics Usage**. You can access this feature through the Coralogix app or retrieve the data via the [Metrics Cardinality API](https://coralogix.com/docs/developer-portal/apis/data-management/metrics-cardinality-api/index.md).

## Overview

Metrics Usage enables you to:

- Visualize your estimated usage
- Quickly identify the most resource-intensive metrics
- Evaluate the impact of code changes on your usage in near real-time

## Types of usage

Coralogix provides real-time estimates of your metric usage, categorized by **metric name**, **label name**, **label-value pair**, and **label value count by label name**. Data is presented with the top 1,000 heaviest metrics sorted by permutations in descending order.

## Investigate data quota consumption

View usage by metric name per series count, bytes, or units to fully understand [daily quota consumption](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/account-management/payment-and-billing/data-usage/index.md). Note that bytes and unit calculations are approximate and may not always align perfectly with [Data Usage](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/account-management/payment-and-billing/data-usage/index.md). On average, there is a variance between estimated and billable usage. The margin of error tends to be larger for smaller usage volumes due to the nature of the estimations.

## Explore metrics usage

To access Metrics Usage, navigate to **Settings** > **Metrics Usage**.

Utilize the search bar to find specific metrics or labels of interest, and adjust the time frame to analyze usage data for a particular day in UTC.

Series count refers to the number of metric permutations. The **% of Used Series** column represents each metric's percentage against the total permutations.

The **7-Day Avg** column represents each metric's percentage against the weekly average of total permutations.

## Additional resources

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| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Documentation | [Metrics Cardinality API](https://coralogix.com/docs/developer-portal/apis/data-management/metrics-cardinality-api/index.md) [Data Usage](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/account-management/payment-and-billing/data-usage/index.md) |

## Support

**Need help?**

Our world-class customer success team is available 24/7 to walk you through your setup and answer any questions that may come up.

Feel free to reach out to us **via our in-app chat** or by sending us an email at **[support@coralogix.com](mailto:support@coralogix.com)**.