Grafana Cloud continuously provides your account limits in the following metrics:
grafanacloud_instance_metrics_limits
grafanacloud_logs_instance_limits
grafanacloud_traces_instance_limits
To find these limits in your Grafana Cloud instance:
Click Explore (compass icon).
Select grafanacloud-usage from the drop-down menu.
In the Metrics browser query field, enter the metric, for example grafanacloud_instance_metrics_limits.
Click Run query.
The label limit_name provides the specific limit. See below for a complete reference.
Metric usage limits
To increase metrics usage limits, contact Grafana Support.
Ingestion limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
ingestion_rate
The maximum number of ingested samples per second for a series.
10,000
ingestion_burst_size
The maximum allowed ingestion burst size in number of samples.
200,000
max_global_series_per_metric
The total maximum series for each metric across the entire instance.
20,000
max_global_series_per_user
The total maximum series for each user in an instance.
150,000
max_global_exemplars_per_user
The total maximum exemplars for each user in an instance.
100,000
Query limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
max_partial_query_length
The maximum time range for partial queries at the querier level.
768h
max_series_per_query
The maximum number of unique series for which a query can fetch samples
100,000
Rules limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
ruler_max_rule_groups_per_tenant
The maximum number of rule groups for an instance.
35
ruler_max_rules_per_rule_group
The maximum number of rules per rule group for an instance.
20
Logs usage limits
Ingestion limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
ingestion_rate_mb
Per-user ingestion rate in MB.
5
max_global_streams_per_user
The maximum number of active streams per user, across ingesters.
5,000
retention_period
Compactor retention for storage, in hours.
744
max_line_size
The maximum size of a log line. This limit can’t be modified.
256kb
max_label_names_per_series
The maximum number of labels per stream.
15
max_label_name_length
The maximum size label name.
1024
max_label_value_length
The maximum size label value.
2048
Query limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
max_query_length
The maximum time range for partial queries at the querier level.
721h
max_query_lookback
Querier limit on how far back data can be queried.
0 (disabled)
max_query_series
The maximum unique series that can be returned by a metric query.
500
Traces usage limits
Limit name
Limit description
Default limit
max_bytes_per_trace
The maximum size of a trace in bytes.
3,000,000
ingestion_rate_limit_bytes
Per-user ingestion rate limit in bytes.
500,000
ingestion_burst_size_bytes
Per ingestion burst size in bytes.
500,000
block_retention
The duration to keep blocks/traces in seconds.
2,592,000
Discarded Spans panel in the Billing dashboard
In the Billing dashboard, there is a panel that shows Discarded Spans and a color-coded legend with a reason why the spans were discarded.
The table that follows defines each of those reasons.
Reason for discarded span
Description
internal error
A general error that should be further explained in the logs.
live_traces_exceeded
Exceeded the max number of traces allowed in the ingester per tenant.
rate limited
Exceeded the ingestion_rate_limit_bytes limit.
trace_too_large
Exceeded the max_bytes_per_trace limit.
You can use grafanacloud_traces_instance_percentage_complete_traces_flushed metric.
This metric has a value between 0 and 1, indicating the percentage of traces without any orphaned spans when the trace is flushed to storage.
In addition, you can use the grafanacloud_traces_instance_discarded_spans_total:rate5m metric to review the number of discarded spans, including the reasons for discarding, in 5 minute periods.
Grafana Cloud usage
Grafana Cloud continuously provides your account usage in the following metrics:
grafanacloud_instance_metrics_*
grafanacloud_logs_instance_*
grafanacloud_traces_instance_*
For example, to monitor log stream count, you can use grafanacloud_logs_instance_active_streams.
Cloud Traces usage
If you need to have a limit raised, then contact Grafana Support for assistance.