MakeAlert creates an Alert based on the type of the service (eg Pager Duty) and its corresponding API key.

MakeMetricsEndpoint creates an Endpoint for the monitoring server with the desired auth level.

MakeMetricsRecorder makes a metrics recorder with the records map as the underlying map.

Metrics is an interface that allows a client to pass in key value pairs (keys must be strings) and it can dump the metrics as JSON.