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+**Design:** New Feature, **Status:**
+[In Development](../../../README.md)
+
+# SDK Tenets (unless you know better ones)
+
+1. Metrics can be used to provide insights about application behavior to enhance performance, debug operational issues.
+2. Enabling metrics should have minimal impact on the application performance.
+3. Customers can publish the collected metrics into their desired monitoring platform.
+4. Metrics are divided into different categories for granular control.
+5. Customers can control the metrics collection cost by having the ability to enable/disable the metrics collection by category.
+6. Metrics collected by SDK are namespaced to avoid collision with other application metrics.
+
+
+# Project Introduction
+
+This project introduces a feature that can collect and report SDK metrics data in your application.
+These metrics can be used to gather insights into your application and tune the application for 
+the best performance. The metrics can help in debugging when the application is experiencing
+high error rates.
+
+
+# Project Details (WIP)
+
+1. Metrics are disabled by default and should be enabled explicitly by customers. Enabling metrics will introduce small overhead.
+2. Collected metrics are stored in customer's account. SDK cannot access the stored metrics from customer's account.
+
+