Why has my distribution metrics page been deprecated?

Datadog has released a new pipeline for calculating globally accurate percentiles for your distribution metrics — this unlocks more query functionality and an easier configuration workflow for distributions.

How does this new pipeline for Distributions affect me?

• Unlocks new query functionalities:
  • Accurate percentiles in time for any historical timeframe (such as the past day, week, or month).
  • Boolean filtered queries are now available with distribution metrics with percentiles, so that you can write queries like: p99:request_latency_distribution{app:A OR app:B} by {app}.
• Easier tag configuration and percentile aggregation workflows:
  • All tag configuration-percentile aggregations are managed in one centralized location on the Metrics Summary page.
  • Use the “Manage Tags” button on the Metrics Summary details side panel to manage the queryable tags configuration for a distribution metric.
  • To add percentile aggregations to your distribution, navigate to the new percentiles section on the side panel, click Edit and select “Include” for percentile aggregations on the same queryable tags defined on your baseline distribution. You’ll no longer need to specify an additional configuration rule.
• More intuitive number of custom metrics from distributions with percentiles: The number of custom metrics emitted from additional percentile aggregations is no longer 5 percentile timeseries for every potentially queryable tag value combination. The new number of custom metrics emitted from distributions with percentiles is now counted more similarly to our other metric types:

  Metric Type	Query Type	# of custom metrics emitted
  Distribution	Queryable by count, sum, min, max, and avg.	5 for each tag value combination emitted in your data
  Distribution with percentile aggregations	Queryable by count, sum, min, max, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99.	10 for each tag value combination emitted in your data

How can I configure tags on my Distribution metric?

Click the Manage Tags button to configure which tags are queryable on a particular metric. You can preview the new number of indexed custom metrics from your tag configuration before saving it.

How can I add percentiles to my Distribution metric?

Click Edit and select Include to include percentile aggregations on the same queryable tags defined on your baseline distribution.

How can I add percentiles to multiple Distribution metrics?

Click Calculate Percentiles on the Metrics Summary page and use * for wildcarding metric names.