diff --git a/ui/metrics/metrics.go b/ui/metrics/metrics.go
index 1cef2c7d9..efb572c56 100644
--- a/ui/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/ui/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -12,8 +12,30 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
+// Package metrics represents the metrics system for Android Platform Build Systems.
 package metrics
 
+// This is the main heart of the metrics system for Android Platform Build Systems.
+// The starting of the soong_ui (cmd/soong_ui/main.go), the metrics system is
+// initialized by the invocation of New and is then stored in the context
+// (ui/build/context.go) to be used throughout the system. During the build
+// initialization phase, several functions in this file are invoked to store
+// information such as the environment, build configuration and build metadata.
+// There are several scoped code that has Begin() and defer End() functions
+// that captures the metrics and is them added as a perfInfo into the set
+// of the collected metrics. Finally, when soong_ui has finished the build,
+// the defer Dump function is invoked to store the collected metrics to the
+// raw protobuf file in the $OUT directory.
+//
+// There is one additional step that occurs after the raw protobuf file is written.
+// If the configuration environment variable ANDROID_ENABLE_METRICS_UPLOAD is
+// set with the path, the raw protobuf file is uploaded to the destination. See
+// ui/build/upload.go for more details. The filename of the raw protobuf file
+// and the list of files to be uploaded is defined in cmd/soong_ui/main.go.
+//
+// See ui/metrics/event.go for the explanation of what an event is and how
+// the metrics system is a stack based system.
+
 import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
@@ -27,21 +49,37 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	PrimaryNinja    = "ninja"
-	RunKati         = "kati"
+	// Below is a list of names passed in to the Begin tracing functions. These
+	// names are used to group a set of metrics.
+
+	// Setup and tear down of the build systems.
 	RunSetupTool    = "setup"
 	RunShutdownTool = "shutdown"
-	RunSoong        = "soong"
-	RunBazel        = "bazel"
 	TestRun         = "test"
-	Total           = "total"
+
+	// List of build system tools.
+	RunSoong     = "soong"
+	PrimaryNinja = "ninja"
+	RunKati      = "kati"
+	RunBazel     = "bazel"
+
+	// Overall build from building the graph to building the target.
+	Total = "total"
 )
 
+// Metrics is a struct that stores collected metrics during the course
+// of a build which later is dumped to a MetricsBase protobuf file.
+// See ui/metrics/metrics_proto/metrics.proto for further details
+// on what information is collected.
 type Metrics struct {
-	metrics     soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase
+	// The protobuf message that is later written to the file.
+	metrics soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase
+
+	// A list of pending build events.
 	EventTracer *EventTracer
 }
 
+// New returns a pointer of Metrics to store a set of metrics.
 func New() (metrics *Metrics) {
 	m := &Metrics{
 		metrics:     soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase{},
@@ -50,6 +88,8 @@ func New() (metrics *Metrics) {
 	return m
 }
 
+// SetTimeMetrics stores performance information from an executed block of
+// code.
 func (m *Metrics) SetTimeMetrics(perf soong_metrics_proto.PerfInfo) {
 	switch perf.GetName() {
 	case RunKati:
@@ -67,14 +107,19 @@ func (m *Metrics) SetTimeMetrics(perf soong_metrics_proto.PerfInfo) {
 	}
 }
 
+// BuildConfig stores information about the build configuration.
 func (m *Metrics) BuildConfig(b *soong_metrics_proto.BuildConfig) {
 	m.metrics.BuildConfig = b
 }
 
+// SystemResourceInfo stores information related to the host system such
+// as total CPU and memory.
 func (m *Metrics) SystemResourceInfo(b *soong_metrics_proto.SystemResourceInfo) {
 	m.metrics.SystemResourceInfo = b
 }
 
+// SetMetadataMetrics sets information about the build such as the target
+// product, host architecture and out directory.
 func (m *Metrics) SetMetadataMetrics(metadata map[string]string) {
 	for k, v := range metadata {
 		switch k {
@@ -94,15 +139,15 @@ func (m *Metrics) SetMetadataMetrics(metadata map[string]string) {
 				m.metrics.TargetBuildVariant = soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase_ENG.Enum()
 			}
 		case "TARGET_ARCH":
-			m.metrics.TargetArch = m.getArch(v)
+			m.metrics.TargetArch = arch(v)
 		case "TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT":
 			m.metrics.TargetArchVariant = proto.String(v)
 		case "TARGET_CPU_VARIANT":
 			m.metrics.TargetCpuVariant = proto.String(v)
 		case "HOST_ARCH":
-			m.metrics.HostArch = m.getArch(v)
+			m.metrics.HostArch = arch(v)
 		case "HOST_2ND_ARCH":
-			m.metrics.Host_2NdArch = m.getArch(v)
+			m.metrics.Host_2NdArch = arch(v)
 		case "HOST_OS_EXTRA":
 			m.metrics.HostOsExtra = proto.String(v)
 		case "HOST_CROSS_OS":
@@ -117,8 +162,10 @@ func (m *Metrics) SetMetadataMetrics(metadata map[string]string) {
 	}
 }
 
-func (m *Metrics) getArch(arch string) *soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase_Arch {
-	switch arch {
+// arch returns the corresponding MetricsBase_Arch based on the string
+// parameter.
+func arch(a string) *soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase_Arch {
+	switch a {
 	case "arm":
 		return soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase_ARM.Enum()
 	case "arm64":
@@ -132,37 +179,51 @@ func (m *Metrics) getArch(arch string) *soong_metrics_proto.MetricsBase_Arch {
 	}
 }
 
+// SetBuildDateTime sets the build date and time. The value written
+// to the protobuf file is in seconds.
 func (m *Metrics) SetBuildDateTime(buildTimestamp time.Time) {
 	m.metrics.BuildDateTimestamp = proto.Int64(buildTimestamp.UnixNano() / int64(time.Second))
 }
 
+// SetBuildCommand adds the build command specified by the user to the
+// list of collected metrics.
 func (m *Metrics) SetBuildCommand(cmd []string) {
 	m.metrics.BuildCommand = proto.String(strings.Join(cmd, " "))
 }
 
-// exports the output to the file at outputPath
-func (m *Metrics) Dump(outputPath string) error {
+// Dump exports the collected metrics from the executed build to the file at
+// out path.
+func (m *Metrics) Dump(out string) error {
 	// ignore the error if the hostname could not be retrieved as it
 	// is not a critical metric to extract.
 	if hostname, err := os.Hostname(); err == nil {
 		m.metrics.Hostname = proto.String(hostname)
 	}
 	m.metrics.HostOs = proto.String(runtime.GOOS)
-	return writeMessageToFile(&m.metrics, outputPath)
+
+	return save(&m.metrics, out)
 }
 
+// SetSoongBuildMetrics sets the metrics collected from the soong_build
+// execution.
 func (m *Metrics) SetSoongBuildMetrics(metrics *soong_metrics_proto.SoongBuildMetrics) {
 	m.metrics.SoongBuildMetrics = metrics
 }
 
+// A CriticalUserJourneysMetrics is a struct that contains critical user journey
+// metrics. These critical user journeys are defined under cuj/cuj.go file.
 type CriticalUserJourneysMetrics struct {
+	// A list of collected CUJ metrics.
 	cujs soong_metrics_proto.CriticalUserJourneysMetrics
 }
 
+// NewCriticalUserJourneyMetrics returns a pointer of CriticalUserJourneyMetrics
+// to capture CUJs metrics.
 func NewCriticalUserJourneysMetrics() *CriticalUserJourneysMetrics {
 	return &CriticalUserJourneysMetrics{}
 }
 
+// Add adds a set of collected metrics from an executed critical user journey.
 func (c *CriticalUserJourneysMetrics) Add(name string, metrics *Metrics) {
 	c.cujs.Cujs = append(c.cujs.Cujs, &soong_metrics_proto.CriticalUserJourneyMetrics{
 		Name:    proto.String(name),
@@ -170,22 +231,25 @@ func (c *CriticalUserJourneysMetrics) Add(name string, metrics *Metrics) {
 	})
 }
 
-func (c *CriticalUserJourneysMetrics) Dump(outputPath string) (err error) {
-	return writeMessageToFile(&c.cujs, outputPath)
+// Dump saves the collected CUJs metrics to the raw protobuf file.
+func (c *CriticalUserJourneysMetrics) Dump(filename string) (err error) {
+	return save(&c.cujs, filename)
 }
 
-func writeMessageToFile(pb proto.Message, outputPath string) (err error) {
+// save takes a protobuf message, marshals to an array of bytes
+// and is then saved to a file.
+func save(pb proto.Message, filename string) (err error) {
 	data, err := proto.Marshal(pb)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	tempPath := outputPath + ".tmp"
-	err = ioutil.WriteFile(tempPath, []byte(data), 0644)
-	if err != nil {
+
+	tempFilename := filename + ".tmp"
+	if err := ioutil.WriteFile(tempFilename, []byte(data), 0644 /* rw-r--r-- */); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	err = os.Rename(tempPath, outputPath)
-	if err != nil {
+
+	if err := os.Rename(tempFilename, filename); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}