[#BloombergLP-balm-ConfigurationUtil]
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This `struct` provides utilities for configuring metrics.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_configurationutil.h>`

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struct ConfigurationUtil;
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/balm/ConfigurationUtil/createUserDataKey.adoc[`createUserDataKey`] 
| Return a new unique key for associating user data with metrics.
| xref:BloombergLP/balm/ConfigurationUtil/setFormat.adoc[`setFormat`] 
| Set the format for the metric identified by `category` and `metricName` to `format`.
| xref:BloombergLP/balm/ConfigurationUtil/setFormatSpec.adoc[`setFormatSpec`] 
| Set the format specification for one aggregate of a metric.
| xref:BloombergLP/balm/ConfigurationUtil/setPreferredPublicationType.adoc[`setPreferredPublicationType`] 
| Set the preferred publication type for a metric.
| xref:BloombergLP/balm/ConfigurationUtil/setUserData-0f.adoc[`setUserData`] 
| `setUserData` overloads
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