I'm struggling with this currently. I want to record some metrics with our codebase, like counting each time a certain thing happens. Our code logs requests and

I'm struggling with this currently. I want to record some metrics with our codebase, like counting each time a certain thing happens. Our code logs requests and response times to ElasticSearch, so there's the option of just "logging" these metrics so ElasticSearch has them too. It just seems a mismatch to me. Earlier I wanted to create a dashboard that graphed some derived stats off of that request data, like server utilization which depends on doing some math with average request count and average response time - it just didn't seem like elastic search dashboards easily supported that. I was able to do it on the AWS lb level with Cloudwatch. Not having had exhaustive training with ElasticSearch maybe I'm looking for a separate metrics system like statsd and Grafana.