anchor.diff:  A timer is used to measure how long some event is taking. Spring Cloud automatically records timers for Spring MVC requests and conditionally `RestTemplate` requests, which can later be used to create dashboards for request related metrics like latency:
   
   .Request Latency
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   [source,java]
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positive.code: :github-code: http://github.com/{github-repo}/tree/{github-tag}
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  = Spring Cloud Netflix
  
  *{spring-cloud-version}*
  
negative.code: One of the main benefits of Hystrix is the set of metrics it gathers about each HystrixCommand.  The Hystrix Dashboard displays the health of each circuit breaker in an efficient manner.
  
  .Hystrix Dashboard
  image::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix/{branch}/docs/src/main/asciidoc/images/Hystrix.png[]
  
  == Hystrix Timeouts And Ribbon Clients
  
  