Measuring Latency for Monitoring and Benchmarking purposes is notoriously difficult. There are a lot of pitfalls with collecting, aggregating and analyzing latency data. In the talk, we will make an effort to visit this topic from a top-down perspective and compile known complications and best-practice approaches on how to avoid them. This will include: Measurement Overhead Queuing effects – Coordinated omission Histograms for Aggregation and Visualization Percentile aggregation Latency bands and burn-down charts Latency comparison methods (QQ Plots, KS-Distance)