# Metrics
Shardcake exposes a few metrics to give you better visibility into the state of your cluster. Those metrics are exposed via ZIO Metrics (opens new window), which allows you to use the backend of your choice (opens new window).
# Shard Manager Metrics
shardcake.pods
(gauge): Number of pods currently registeredshardcake.shards_assigned
(gauge): Number of shards currently assigned to a podshardcake.shards_unassigned
(gauge): Number of shards currently not assigned to any podshardcake.rebalances
(counter): Number of rebalances that have occurredshardcake.pod_health_checked
(counter): Number of times the health of a pod has been checked
# Pod Metrics
shardcake.shards
(gauge): Number of shards currently assigned to the podshardcake.entities
(gauge): Number of entities currently running on the podshardcake.singletons
(gauge): Number of singletons currently running on the pod