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stage: Analytics
group: Product Intelligence
-info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
+info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Metrics Dictionary Guide
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- `subscription`: Data related to licensing.
- `standard`: Standard set of identifiers that are included when collecting data.
+An aggregate metric is a metric that is the sum of two or more child metrics. Service Ping uses the data category of
+the aggregate metric to determine whether or not the data is included in the reported Service Ping payload.
+
### Metric name suggestion examples
#### Metric with `data_source: database`