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title: "Forecasting | Grafana Labs"
description: "Machine learning that learns a metric's past pattern and projects its future values for smarter alerting and capacity planning."
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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).

## Forecasting

[Forecasting](/docs/plugins/grafana-ml-app/latest/dynamic-alerting/forecasting/) creates smarter alerting. It learns a metric’s past pattern and projects its future values. When the forecast shows the metric is on track to cross a limit, an alert fires before you actually hit it.

The outcome is:

- Early detection of issues before they become real problems
- Capacity planning based on data instead of guesswork

[A forecast line projecting a metric past a limit, with an alert firing before the limit is reached](forecast-alert.svg "A forecast line projecting a metric past a limit, with an alert firing before the limit is reached")

[Try it out in Grafana Play](https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-ml-app/metric-forecast)