Abstract: A method includes monitoring, using a system resource monitor in a system, a plurality of system resource metrics. The system includes a ring buffer with consecutive slots, each slot corresponding to a different location in the memory. The method further includes receiving a system resource metric from the system resource monitor. The method also includes determining a first slot that is flagged as acceptable to be overwritten. If no slot is flagged as acceptable to be overwritten, the method further includes dropping the system resource metric, and the method ends. Otherwise, the method further includes storing the system resource metric in the slot and flagging that the slot is not acceptable to be overwritten. The method further includes detecting that the system resource metric was stored in the first slot, reading the system resource metric from the first slot, and flagging that the first slot is acceptable to be overwritten.