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Adaptive Metrics plugin

Adaptive Metrics’s recommended rules identify what metrics to aggregate based on usage within your Cloud environment.

The Adaptive Metrics plugin is available from Grafana Cloud Home > Administration > Cost management > Metrics > Adaptive Metrics. From the Overview tab and if there are recommended rules already applied, you will see the date and time when the recommended rules were last generated. To understand how recommended rules work, refer to Understand recommended rules for metrics aggregation.

From the Applied rules tab, you can see what rules are currently applied.

Get started

You can use the Adaptive Metrics plugin GUI or the Adaptive Metrics HTTP API to interact with recommended rules.

Review and apply one recommended rule

1. For a given recommended rule, expand it to see Recommended rule information and Metric usage stats.

2. Select Apply recommendation.

   Note

   No confirmation modal is displayed when you apply a rule from its expanded view.

Review and apply multiple recommended rules

Recommended aggregation rules are customized to your environment. Before you choose what aggregation rules to apply, review them from the Recommended rules tab. To the right, you can see when the recommended rules were last updated.

1. Narrow down the list of recommended rules:

   In the Filter field, add a search term.

   This can be the full metric name or something you would expect to appear in the name.

2. Expand a given rule to see its details.

3. Select each recommended rule that you would like to apply.

   Note

   If you want to review the recommended rules you have selected before applying them, click Show selected recommendations. This is helpful when the selected rules span multiple pages.

4. Click Apply selected recommendations.

   A confirmation module is displayed that contains information about how many rules will be changed, and their affect on your total time series.

Review applied rules

To view aggregation rules that have already been applied, go to the Applied rules tab.

An available update for an applied rule means that the recommendations service has revised its recommendation for that rule since it last ran. For more information, see Time when recommendations for aggregations were last generated.

Apply recommended updates to rules

1. Go to the Applied rules tab.

2. Narrow down the list of recommended rules:

   In the Filter field, add a search term.

   This can be the full metric name or something you would expect to appear in the name.

3. Expand a given rule to see its details.

4. Apply all updates:

   1. Clear any selected metrics.
   2. Click Apply all updates.

   To apply a subset of the available updates, select one or more rules, and apply their available updates.

Review and remove one applied rule

1. For a given applied rule, expand it to see Rule information and Metric usage stats.

2. Select Remove rule.

   Note

   No confirmation modal is displayed when you remove a rule from its expanded view.

Review and remove multiple applied rules

Before you choose what aggregation rules to remove, review them from the Applied rules tab. To the right, you can see when the applied rules were last saved.

1. Narrow down the list of applied rules:

   In the Filter field, add a search term.

   This can be the full metric name or something you would expect to appear in the name.

2. Expand a given rule to see its details.

3. Select each applied rule that you would like to remove.

   Note

   To review the applied rules that you have selected before removing them, click Show selected rules. This is helpful when the selected rules span multiple pages.

4. Click Remove selected rules.

   A confirmation module is displayed that contains information about how many rules will be removed.