# Overview Performance is the evaluation of a system's ability to meet a determined evaluation metric with the current system load. There are a variety of ways to evaluate performance with in the concept of a technical system. Depending on your use cases, performance may best be measure through real-world interactions (User Interface (UI)) response times or through system / technical measurements (i.e., [[latency]]). # Key Considerations It is usually better to use percentiles when measuring performance. These percentiles should be used as [[Service Level Objectives (SLOs)]] and [[Service Level Agreements (SLAs)]]. These percentiles can be approximated using [[Percentile Approximation Algorithms]]. ## Potential Performance Evaluation Metrics ### Throughput ![[Throughput#Overview]] ### [[Response Time vs. Latency]] ![[Response Time vs. Latency]] # Implementation Details # Useful Links # Related Topics ## Reference #### Working Notes #### Sources