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How Metrics Work on Statsig

A metric in Statsig is a numeric value for each user on a given day. This value can be aggregated across the entire user base or a subset, such as the test group of an experiment.

For example, say a user made two purchases on September 1st. This value can be aggregated across multiple users to calculate the total number of purchases across all users on September 1st.

Two Sources of Statsig Metrics

There are two sources of metrics in Statsig:

  1. Raw Events - Statsig auto-generates certain metrics such as event_count and event_dau from these events; you can also convert these events into metrics via Custom Metrics
  2. Precomputed Metrics - you can provide these pre-computed values to Statsig

Statsig's Stats Engine joins these metrics with your exposure events from feature gates and experiments to compute experiment results and analytics.

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How are events and metrics billed?

Each event (or a row when importing from your data warehouse) is billed once, regardless of how many experiments the event is used in.