# Metrics settings

* [**Severity weights**](#severity-weights)
* [**Risk appetite**](#risk-appetite)
* [**Business criticality**](#business-criticality)
* [**SLA**](/appsec-portal/features/security-metrics/metrics-settings/sla.md)

### Severity Weights

You can set the **weight** for each severity type according to your business needs by going to *Settings -> Metrics -> Severity Weights*:

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### Risk appetite

Set your **general** **risk appetite** and **risk appetite  per product**:

* The *general WRT* is calculated from the sum of the risks of all the applications. So **General** **Risk appetite value** is the general WRT value that seems acceptable to the business and should be considered as a general KPI.
* **Risk appetite per product** sets a value for each product development team, this risk appetite is their target metric (up to this value they need to reduce their risk trend).

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