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title: "Adaptive Telemetry | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn about the key benefits and features of Adaptive Telemetry"
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# Adaptive Telemetry

Adaptive Telemetry optimizes which signals get stored and ensures that your teams only keep the most valuable telemetry.

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## Overview

Adaptive Telemetry is an intelligent filter at the front door of your observability platform designed to connect the cost of your telemetry to its intrinsic value.

By analyzing 100% of your incoming data, it makes a crucial distinction: it filters out the low-value, redundant noise while guaranteeing that every piece of telemetry worthy of your attention—every error, every high-latency event—is preserved.

This focus on signal over noise directly translates to a faster Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), as your teams can immediately investigate critical issues without sifting through irrelevant data. The result is a more valuable, cost-effective observability practice where cost savings are a natural consequence of storing only the data you actually need to solve problems.

Adaptive Telemetry provides a suite of features, including Adaptive Metrics, Adaptive Logs, and Adaptive Traces. These features include usage-based recommendations, which help you lower costs without sacrificing the insights you need to keep your systems running smoothly.

- Use intuitive user interfaces to review and apply optimizations and help your organization focus on the telemetry that actually delivers value.
- Exempt certain telemetry data from optimization recommendations, retaining critical data.

## Explore

[Adaptive Metrics  
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Analyzes how metrics are used—across dashboards, alerts, and queries—and classifies them to optimize data retention, ensuring you store only what matters.](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/)

[Adaptive Logs  
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Identifies commonly ingested log patterns and creates a set of customized recommendations for dropping unused telemetry.](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-logs/)

[Adaptive Traces  
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Identifies and retains your most valuable traces, so that you can get the insights you need into application performance and availability.](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-traces/)