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Measures
Measures are calculations based on metrics, keys, counters, or stopwatches. A measure points to a metric (such as order amount) and distills the instance information into something that is useful, such as the average order amount, the total order amount (using the sum function), or the total number of orders (using the count function).
You can define measures to be used in dimensional analysis in the dashboards.
Measures take the instance-based values from the metric, key, counter, or stopwatch and aggregate them to produce a single value across multiple instances. The aggregation function can be average, maximum, minimum, sum, count (number of occurrences), or standard deviation.
Measures also contain tracking keys, which are required for returning runtime values collected from Business Monitor to WebSphere Business Modeler. Tracking keys are used to correlate the elements between the monitoring result and the process model. See Returning results to WebSphere Business Modeler using tracking keys for more information about tracking keys.