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Clarify Metrics Tips & Billing
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> The Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distros include custom mapping and logic to automatically emit [Application Insights standard metrics](standard-metrics.md).
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> [!TIP]
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> The OpenTelemetry-based offerings currently emit all OpenTelemetry metrics as [Custom Metrics](opentelemetry-add-modify.md#add-custom-metrics) and [Performance Counters](standard-metrics.md#performance-counters) in Metrics Explorer. For .NET, Node.js, and Python, whatever you set as the meter name becomes the metrics namespace.
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> At this time, all OpenTelemetry metrics whether generated from instrumentation libraries or manual coding are considered "custom metrics" for billing purposes. [Learn More](pre-aggregated-metrics-log-metrics.md#custom-metrics-dimensions-and-pre-aggregation).
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### Add a community instrumentation library
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### Add custom metrics
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> [!NOTE]
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> Custom Metrics are under preview in Azure Monitor Application Insights. Custom metrics without dimensions are available by default. To view and alert on dimensions, you need to [opt-in](pre-aggregated-metrics-log-metrics.md#custom-metrics-dimensions-and-pre-aggregation).
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In this context, custom metrics refers to manually instrumenting your code to collect additional metrics beyond what the OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Libraries collect by default.
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The OpenTelemetry API offers six metric "instruments" to cover various metric scenarios and you need to pick the correct "Aggregation Type" when visualizing metrics in Metrics Explorer. This requirement is true when using the OpenTelemetry Metric API to send metrics and when using an instrumentation library.
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