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title: Add shield hit and miss metrics
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/changes/2022/03/add-shield-hit-and-miss-metrics
---

Six new metrics related to shield hits and misses have been added: `shield_hit_requests`, `shield_miss_requests`, `shield_hit_resp_header_bytes`, `shield_hit_resp_body_bytes`, `shield_miss_resp_header_bytes`, and `shield_miss_resp_body_bytes`.