Introduction#

In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to UrbanCode™Velocity.

In UrbanCodeVelocity, data can come from integrated applications or clients using the REST API.

UrbanCodeVelocity provides numerous tools to analyze your data and access your project's status. Numerous metric charts are available out-of-the-box and you can create your own. Charts are configured with metric definitions. Metric definitions describe the expected data values and set chart default values.

In this tutorial, you create a metric definition and use the curl utility to load it into UrbanCodeVelocity along with a record that conforms to the metric definition. Finally, you view the custom chart and data in an Insights dashboard.

Learning objectives#

In this tutorial, you learn how to complete these tasks:

Time required#

This tutorial takes approximately 1 hour to finish. If you explore other concepts that are related to this tutorial, it might take longer to complete.

System requirements#

To run this tutorial, you must have installed the UrbanCodeVelocity application, version 1.3.0 or later

Prerequisites#

To complete this tutorial, you need:

Parent topic: Implementing custom metrics