Metrics Stores Remind Me That Data Work Is Hard
- John Wills

- Dec 28, 2025
- 1 min read
If you haven’t heard about metrics stores yet, they’re “newish,” so you likely will. They are interesting to an extent, but mostly, they feel like a late-night re-run and remind me that data work is hard.
So, what is a metrics store? Most of the young vendors trying to create this category will tell you that it’s a unified way to define and manage business metrics and abstract the confusion and sprawl of layers of BI tools into a common semantic meaning. It sounds like a utopia, right?

