title: What do minute rates of Timer and Meter metrics indicate?
body: <p>We are trying to achieve reporting functionality based on information from Yammer metrics.</p>
  
  <p>Yammer metrics provides information about Timers and Meters as shown below:   </p>
  
  <pre><code>METER_METRIC:
               count = 1
           mean rate = 0.01 count/s
       1-minute rate = 0.00 count/s
       5-minute rate = 0.00 count/s
      15-minute rate = 0.00 count/s
  
  TIMER_METRIC:
               count = 1
           mean rate = 0.01 calls/s
       1-minute rate = 0.01 calls/s
       5-minute rate = 0.00 calls/s
      15-minute rate = 0.00 calls/s
                 min = 89.77ms
                 max = 89.77ms
                mean = 89.77ms
              stddev = 0.00ms
              median = 89.77ms
                75% &lt;= 89.77ms
                95% &lt;= 89.77ms
                98% &lt;= 89.77ms
                99% &lt;= 89.77ms
              99.9% &lt;= 89.77ms
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I read <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150205091657/http://engineering.snapdeal.com/2014/06/yammer-metrics-monitoring-your_12.html" rel="noreferrer">an overview</a> and am able to get the application statistics as shown above. The Timer and Meter metrics have information about the 1-minute rate, 5-minute rate and 15-minute rate. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Question:</strong></p>
  
  <p>What do the minute rates of the Timer and Meter metrics indicate and how those are getting calculated?</p>