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title:  Creating New Statistics
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This example provides a programmatic code sample for creating and registering new statistics.

For information about the `geode_statistics` API, see [Statistics API](gfe-cpp-api.html#concept_AB12290E89CA4724AC9F51EFF7B8B8EA__section_42764C6327944514AE4A26684D7EBCB0).

## Creating New Statistics Programmatically

``` pre
//Get StatisticsFactory 
StatisticsFactory* factory = StatisticsFactory::getExistingInstance(); 
 
 
//Define each StatisticDescriptor and put each in an array 
StatisticDescriptor** statDescriptorArr = new StatisticDescriptor*[6]; 
statDescriptorArr[0] = statFactory->createIntCounter("IntCounter",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Int Counter.","TestUnit"); 
 
statDescriptorArr[1] = statFactory->createIntGauge("IntGauge",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Int Gauge.","TestUnit");
 
statDescriptorArr[2] = statFactory->createLongCounter("LongCounter",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Long Counter.","TestUnit");
 
statDescriptorArr[3] = statFactory->createLongGauge("LongGauge",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Long Gauge.","TestUnit");
 
statDescriptorArr[4] = statFactory->createDoubleCounter("DoubleCounter",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Double Counter.","TestUnit");
 
statDescriptorArr[5] = statFactory->createDoubleGauge("DoubleGauge",
    "Test Statistic Descriptor Double Gauge.","TestUnit");
 
 
//Create a StatisticsType 
StatisticsType* statsType = statFactory->createType("TestStatsType", 
    "Statistics for Unit Test.",statDescriptorArr, 6); 
 
//Create Statistics of a given type 
Statistics* testStat = 
    factory->createStatistics(statsType,"TestStatistics"); 
 
 
//Statistics are created and registered. Set and increment individual values 
Int statIdIntCounter = statsType->nameToId("IntCounter"); 
testStat->setInt(statIdIntCounter, 10 );
testStat->incInt(statIdIntCounter, 1 );
int currentValue = testStat->getInt(statIdIntCounter);
```