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title: "Exemptions come first | Grafana Labs"
description: "Create exemptions for the metrics and labels whose full detail you need before you enable auto-apply."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Exemptions come first

Before you enable auto-apply, create exemptions for the metrics and labels whose full detail you need. Auto-apply then leaves them out, so their series aren’t combined into fewer series. To create one, refer to [Use exemptions](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/create-exemptions/).