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title: "Enable auto-apply using the UI | Grafana Labs"
description: "Enable auto-apply from Overview, from Segments, or from the prompt after you apply all recommendations, and turn it off from Segments."
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# Enable auto-apply using the UI

You need the **Admin** role to enable auto-apply. You can enable it on a segment you already have, or while you add one.

Start with the **Default segment** if you don’t use segmentation yet. If it’s your only segment, clicking **Enable auto-apply** on **Overview** shows a recommendation to create more segments, and you can still enable auto-apply for Default. Refer to [Configure segmentation](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/additional-configuration/adaptive-metrics-rule-segmentation/).

| Your situation                     | What you do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| You use only the Default segment   | On **Overview**, click **Enable auto-apply**, select **Default**, select an **Auto-apply mode**, and click **Apply**.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| You want several segments at once  | On **Overview**, click **Enable auto-apply**, select the segments and an **Auto-apply mode**, then click **Apply**. The mode you select applies to every segment you selected.                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| You want one segment               | On **Segments**, click **Edit segment** or **Edit default segment**. Select **Enable auto-apply**, select an **Auto-apply mode**, then click **Apply** for Default or **Save** for a named segment.                                                                                                                                                                |
| You applied all recommendations    | On **Metrics**, after you click **Apply all recommendations** and confirm with **Apply**, select an **Auto-apply mode** and click **Enable auto-apply for this segment**. The prompt doesn’t appear if you applied only some recommendations, if auto-apply is already on for that segment, or if you selected **Do not show this again** and clicked **Dismiss**. |
| Auto-apply is on for every segment | **Enable auto-apply** on **Overview** is unavailable, because there’s no segment left to turn on. You can still change each segment on **Segments**.                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

## Check the results

After auto-apply is on, open **Overview** and check **Time series reduction**. That graph shows the change in series. To check one metric, on **Metrics** use **Filter** and open the rule. Refer to [Monitor and validate results](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/monitor/).

## Turn auto-apply off

To turn auto-apply off, on **Segments** click **Edit segment** or **Edit default segment**, clear **Enable auto-apply**, then click **Apply** for Default or **Save** for a named segment. The rules stay as they were applied at that moment. You can still change them yourself.