sum

How it works

Measures cumulative consumption over a window. Unlike averages, it adds every value together to monitor total resource usage or expenditure.

When to use

• Monitoring aggregate resource costs (e.g., bytes sent, API credits).
• Budget-based limits for expensive operations.
• Measuring total load in multi-tenant environments.

When not to use

• When frequency or speed of events matters more than the total amount.

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