---
title: "MetricReading"
description: "one point of one metric"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/metricreading
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# MetricReading

one point of one metric

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

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | platform |
| key | the metric, the labels and the time |
| store | lake:landed |
| family | observability |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `metric` | [Metric](/concepts/metric) | yes |  |
| `labels` | `{text:text}` | yes |  |
| `at` | `time` | yes |  |
| `value` | `share` | yes |  |
| `bucket` | `text` | no | for a histogram |



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