# Useful meaning from each metric

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/useful-meaning-from-each-metric/54606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [July 4, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/useful-meaning-from-each-metric/54606 "2016-07-04T03:28:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![itplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d26b3c/32.png) [@itplayer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/itplayer)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/useful-meaning-from-each-metric/54606/1 "2016-07-04T03:28:33Z")

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Hi,  
Do we have any detailed documents that explains the practical meaning of each metric from Marvel?  
For example, what is the total-refresh-time means? for this metric chart, I;m not understand X-Y axis.  
The other one is Merge Rate. in a continus index scenario, high merge rate is good or not?  
Any idea?

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/useful-meaning-from-each-metric/54606/2 "2016-07-08T21:35:47Z")

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Unfortunately not _yet_.

However, I did just do a webinar last Wednesday where I described each chart. It should be posted here:

[https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-beats-and-marvel-to-monitor-your-infrastructure](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-beats-and-marvel-to-monitor-your-infrastructure)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/useful-meaning-from-each-metric/54606/3 "2017-07-06T13:42:43Z")

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