---
title: Latency
order: 1
description: "How long an operation takes. magus records latency as OpenTelemetry histograms per family (target execution, cache op, pool wait, and graph query) and reports each as a count, sum, and percentiles."
tags: [glossary, telemetry-and-health]
---

# Latency

How long an operation takes. magus records latency as OpenTelemetry histograms
per family (target execution, cache op, pool wait, and graph query) and reports
each as a count, sum, and percentiles.

## Example

```sh
magus status
```

## Used in

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In the docs:

- [Latency](../guides/integrations/editor/events.md#latency)
- [Latency](../reference/api/metrics/v1alpha1/metrics.md#latency)

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## See also

- [Telemetry](../concepts/telemetry.md)
- [Percentile](percentile.md)