Imo, average has to be one of the biggest net negative stats you can collect. It is much better to collect just total throughput stat since that is the only thing that average is useful for, but unlike average stat, it doesn't cause confusion and tons of mistakes.

There are so many issues with average stats, not just the fact that people misunderstand it often, but also in collection and graphing, people often end up having final graph that ends up being some type of average of averages which becomes even more useless and completely meaningless.

If your metrics/monitoring system doesn't allow you to collect and graph proper distributions/percentiles, you really should change that.