Metrics Board: Building an Agent-ready Metrics Layer

Michele Ceccacci; Software Engineer I | Jason Coffman; Sr. Software Engineer | Colm O’Shaughnessy; Software Engineer II | Laura Palmer; Staff Product Manager | Adam Podraza; Manager, Engineering | Surya Karri; Manager, Engineering

At Pinterest, reliable and trustworthymetrics are behind every decision: from measuring company-wide business performance to evaluating each feature experiment results. Hundreds of data producers — analysts, data scientists, and engineers across Pinterest — create thousands of metrics from our petabyte scale data lake. A metrics ecosystem this size can’t be ad hoc; it has to be organized, scalable, and resilient. So we built Metrics Board: an end-to-end platform that automates metric creation, enforces quality and enables agent-driven analytics.

In this post we walk through the product experience, architecture, integrations and explain some of the design choices we made to make metrics work at planet scale.

Why Metrics Matter at Pinterest