Folsom is an erlang based metrics system inspired by coda hale's metrics (https://github.com/codahale/metrics/). the metrics api's purpose is to collect realtime metrics from your erlang applications and publish them via erlang apis and output plugins. folsom is *not* a persistent store. there are 6 types of metrics: counters, gauges, histograms (and timers), histories, meter_readers and meters. metrics can be created, read and updated via the `folsom_metrics` module.

this package includes erlang-folsom headers which are necessary to build erlang applications which use erlang-folsom.