Documentation Grafana Cloud Adaptive Telemetry Adaptive Profiles Boost services

Boost services

Boosting temporarily increases the profiling sample rate for a specific service to 100% for a limited time to collect high-resolution performance data exactly when it matters, whether during change, incident, or optimization.

It then automatically returns to cost-efficient sampling when you’re done.

Boosting services is performed intelligently by Adaptive Telemetry during times of need, and can also be performed manually. You can boost services from Adaptive Profiles > Boosted services or directly from Drilldown when you’re investigating a specific service.

How it works

• Scope: The boost applies to a single service.

• Duration: When manually boosting a service, you choose a time window (for example, 30m or 2h). The service returns to its baseline sampling rate when the time expires.

• Sampling effect: During the boost, Adaptive Profiles collects every profile event from the selected service.

• Cost: Because sampling increases, boosts may temporarily raise usage and cost.

Boost a service

To boost a service, complete the following steps.

1. Navigate to Adaptive Profiles > Boosted services.

2. Click + Boost service.

3. Enter the following.

   • Service name: choose the service to boost.
   • Duration: enter a time window (for example, 30m, or 1h, or 2h30m).

4. Click Start.

   The service appears in the list view with the sampling rate and status (countdown timer).

   When the timer ends, the service automatically returns to its adaptive sampling rate.