# See admits, queues, and rejects without exporting logs

## Introduction

Use Metrics when you need admit, queue, and reject proof without exporting
logs. The pool **Metrics** tab shows those series, plus team and Capacity
budget rollups.

## When to use Metrics

- Weekly capacity review without downloading NDJSON
- "Who caused yesterday's 429s?" before changing concurrency limits
- Showing lock vs proxy mix, or cache hit/miss when response cache is on

## When to use Billing instead

- Included request allowance and overage
- Spend caps and invoices

Metrics and Billing answer different questions. Link between them from the
Metrics tab and the Billing docs.

## Related

- [Metrics](/docs/pools/metrics)
- [Billing](/docs/billing)
- [Diagnose a 429 spike](/docs/knowledge-base/diagnose-429-spike)