Companies are often slaves to irrelevant performance metrics.
Note: Only performance metrics that are of type snapshot counter have deltas calculated.
The Business Measure model allows you to define performance metrics, counters, stopwatches, and triggers for a process, and use them to further define KPIs.
These expressions are applied to the "real" JDBC URL and are required so that the tracer can provide performance metrics to the APM system that are demarcated by the target database.
Some people are interested only in machine alerting, others in performance metrics, others in job profiling, and others just want to know if certain services or applications are running.