---
title: "Level"
description: "a service level: a metric, an aggregation over a window, a target, and the beat it is computed on; the ops console reads levels, never raw metrics"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/level
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Level

a service level: a metric, an aggregation over a window, a target, and the beat it is computed on; the ops console reads levels, never raw metrics

[figure: Level is a definition at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | observability |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `metric` | [Metric](/concepts/metric) | yes |  |
| `aggregation` | `one of p50 \| p95 \| p99 \| mean \| share \| count \| max` | yes |  |
| `window` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `target` | `share` | yes |  |
| `beat` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `alarm` | [Alarm](/concepts/alarm) | no | the alarm raised when the target is missed |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Level directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.