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Simplified Signals and Metrics creation
5 months ago by Amadeusz Starzykiewicz
Creating your own Signals and Metrics is a great step into enhancing your app security with requirements specific to your business.
Signals are very useful for catching business-specific fraud. You can, for example:
- Catch content spamming, like quickly creating many comments.
- Catch password cracking attempts.
- Rate-limit user actions, like buying the same product twice (to use a special promotion).
Now it is easier to create new Metrics and Signals while modelling a policy! You can click "Create Signal" or "Create Metric" in the new or edit policy views:
![Create new signal and Create new metric buttons](https://files.readme.io/8bc7c4d-new-signals-metrics.png)
How does it work in practice? Let's assume you want to limit number of contact form messages sent from a single IP address to 3 in 5 minutes:
![Video of creating new signal and metric in-place](https://files.readme.io/53ee8ae-create-policy-signal-metric-quick-ezgif.com-optimize1.gif)
You can read more about Signals in our documentation:
What do you think? Let us know!