The design time metrics provide some insights into the state of the ICS, from the perspective of the design state and design characteristics of the integrations and connections, such as how many integrations are in the different states between draft and active. This is useful, as it will help with housekeeping; in a development environment it is easy for people to create artifacts and then not clear them down once they have determined that they do not do what is required:
You may note in the preceding screenshot, that the heading has an arrow on the right. By clicking on the arrow, you can click a number of additional statistics. For example, with integrations you can examine how the integrations are split across the different patterns, and by the different adapters being used. As you click through the different views you will see an additional arrow displayed, to scroll back as appropriate as shown in the following screenshot:
