--- title: "Review and apply recommendations | Grafana Cloud documentation" description: "Use the Adaptive Metrics plugin to reduce cardinality, and eliminate unused time series metrics data." --- > For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt). # Review and apply recommendations Manage your rules using the UI, API, or Terraform. This topic focuses on how to manage your rules using the Grafana UI. On the **Rules** page in Adaptive Metrics, you can view all rules and recommended actions. On the **Overview** page, you can see the current status and when rules were last updated. To manage rules using the API or Terraform, refer to [Adaptive Metrics HTTP API](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/manage-as-code/adaptive-metrics-api/) or [Adaptive Metrics Terraform provider](/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/manage-as-code/adaptive-metrics-terraform-provider/). ## Manage rules using the UI You can add, keep, remove, or update recommended rules. 1. Navigate to **Adaptive Metrics**. 2. Navigate to the **Rules** page. A list of rules and recommended actions appears. ### Filter rules Use the following controls to narrow down the rules list: - **Segment**: Filter rules by segment. - **Filter**: Search rules by metric name. - **Recommendation type**: Filter by recommended action: **Add** a new rule, **Keep** an existing rule, **Remove** an existing rule, or **Update** an existing rule. The rules list updates based on the type you select. - **Show selected**: Toggle to display only the rules you have selected. ### Rules table For each rule, the table shows the following columns: - **Metric**: The metric name. Click the metric name or the chevron icon to open the rule details drawer. - **Received series**: The number of active series received for this metric. - **Current rule impact**: The active series impact of the currently applied rule. - **Recommendation impact**: The expected active series impact of the recommended action. - **Actions**: Apply the recommended action or view rule details. ### View rule details Click a metric name or the chevron icon in the **Actions** column to open the rule details drawer. The drawer shows: - **Series Impact**: Three cards showing **Received** (series ingested for this metric), **Stored** (series stored after the recommended rule is applied), and a combined **Reduction** card showing the absolute series change and percentage. The card shows **Increase** instead of **Reduction** when the recommended rule would add series. If no series are detected for this metric in the current segment, the drawer shows a message in place of the cards. - **Metric usage stats**: Three cards that always display the count of each source using this metric: **Alerting and recording rules**, **Dashboards**, and **Queries**. Zero counts are shown explicitly. Each card has a tooltip that explains how the recommendation affects that source. A recommendation can apply even when usage is nonzero, because it only changes parts of the metric that aren’t observed in use, so existing alerts, dashboards, and queries keep working. - **Rule**: A summary section describing the recommended action. - A banner at the top describes the recommendation in plain language. For **Keep**, it confirms no changes are needed. For **Add**, **Update**, or **Remove**, it describes the change and, when available, how stored active series would change. - A series impact badge next to the action buttons shows **Decrease ~N series**, **Increase ~N series**, **No impact on series count**, or **Impact unknown**, depending on the recommendation. - An **Aggregation** card shows the **Types**, **Aggregate labels**, **Keep labels**, and **Managed by** fields, when applicable. For drop rules, the card indicates that the entire metric is dropped. - **Exemptions tab**: Shows how exemptions affect this rule. Depending on the metric, the tab can include an **Applied label exemptions** table, a **Recommendations muted** list, a **Rule suppressed by exemption** warning, or a **Rule effectively neutralized** notice. If no exemptions affect the metric, the tab says so. - **Dashboards tab**: Lists the dashboards that use this metric. Each row shows the dashboard title and a button to open the dashboard in a new tab. The list paginates, and a search box appears when there are many dashboards. When dashboard links aren’t available, for example for system or internal dashboards, the tab notes this. If the metric isn’t used in any dashboards, the tab says so explicitly. From the drawer, you can: - **Apply the recommended action** by clicking **Apply recommendation**. A confirmation dialog box opens. The button doesn’t appear for **Keep** recommendations. - **Edit the rule** by clicking **Edit**. The **Edit** button doesn’t appear for **Add** recommendations. - **Copy the rule as JSON** using the **Copy JSON** dropdown. The dropdown has two options: **Recommendation** (copies the recommended rule) and **Applied rule** (copies the currently applied rule). Each option is disabled when there isn’t a corresponding rule to copy. ### Apply rules 1. Select which rules you want to apply or select **Apply all recommendations**. A confirmation dialog box showing your updates opens. This dialog box displays the total expected series impact, which is useful for understanding the combined effect of all pending changes, including all recommendation types. 2. To confirm your rule updates, click **Apply**. ### Download rules Click the download button on the **Rules** page to export rules. You can choose: - **Recommendations** or **Applied rules** - **All** or **Selected** (only the rules you have selected) - **Verbose** or **Non-verbose** format ### Remove rules in bulk To remove multiple applied rules at once, select the rules using the checkboxes and click **Batch remove rules**.