# Usage

The Usage page in Settings provides comprehensive monitoring of your Norce setup, showing how your system is being utilized from external sources. This dashboard serves as both a monitoring tool and an eye into the data used for billing calculations by Norce, giving you detailed insights into your API consumption and system resources.

## Overview

The Usage page displays key metrics about your Norce environment:

- **System overview**: Applications, price lists, products, orders, and order amounts
- **API monitoring**: Individual API usage statistics and performance metrics
- **Billing integration**: Real-time data that feeds directly into the billing system
- **Time-based analytics**: Historical usage patterns and trends


## System Overview Section

### Quick Access Metrics

The main dashboard shows clickable summary cards for:

- **Applications**: Total number of configured applications
- **Price Lists**: Active pricing configurations
- **Products**: Total product count in your catalog
- **Orders**: Order volume statistics
- **Order Amount**: Total monetary value processed


### Navigation Integration

Each metric card is clickable and provides direct navigation to the corresponding admin UI section:

- Click on **Price Lists** → Navigate to the Pricing tab
- Click on **Products** → Go to the Product catalog
- Click on **Orders** → Access Order management
- Click on **Applications** → View Application settings


This integration allows you to quickly drill down from usage statistics to detailed management of specific areas.

## API Usage Monitoring

### Individual API Dashboards

Each API in your system has its own dedicated usage dashboard showing:

- **Recent activity**: Latest requests from the last hour
- **Historical graphs**: Usage patterns over selected time periods (typically last month)
- **Performance metrics**: Response times and request volumes per day
- **Method breakdown**: Most commonly used API methods and their frequency


### Detailed API Analytics

#### Request Analysis

For each API, you can view:

- **Average response time**: Performance baseline for typical requests
- **Maximum response time**: Longest response time recorded
- **Request count per method**: Usage frequency for each API endpoint
- **Daily request volumes**: Historical patterns and trends


#### Time Span Controls

Customize your analysis with flexible time range options:

- **Relative periods**: Last 7 days, last month, etc.
- **Custom date ranges**: Specify exact start and end dates for detailed analysis
- **Real-time data**: Latest hour activity for immediate monitoring


#### Method Filtering

Focus your analysis by:

- Selecting specific API methods to examine
- Filtering views to show only chosen endpoints
- Comparing usage patterns between different methods


## Important Limitations

### API Isolation

- Each API has its own separate usage dashboard
- You cannot view combined usage across all APIs in a single view
- Cross-API analysis requires checking individual dashboards


### Billing Integration

The usage data displayed is identical to what feeds into the billing system, ensuring:

- **Accuracy**: Billing calculations match dashboard displays
- **Transparency**: Complete visibility into billed usage
- **Real-time updates**: Current usage affects billing calculations immediately