# Add more metrics to Discourse Prometheus
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589 "2018-05-15T20:16:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ssvenn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ssvenn)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589/1 "2018-05-15T20:16:48Z")
I would love to see some of these user activity metrics exposed in the [Discourse Prometheus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prometheus-exporter-plugin-for-discourse/72666) as well!
Simple counters for total posts, visits, searches, users, topics and a gauge for currently active users should be enough to do fun stuff like very granular graphs for what hours your site is busy, alerting if there is a sudden spike in new users, posts and so on, and it would be easier to correlate the existing performance stats with user activity.
The built-in graphs are great of course, but the more stuff I can add to a Grafana dashboard the happier I get 😉
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589/2 "2018-05-16T04:02:42Z")
Happy to add more metrics here, we just need to be careful not to add too much load regularly.