Review your recommendations

Interactive guide: Review your recommendations

Reduce existing metrics cardinality with Adaptive Metrics aggregation recommendations, without touching your ingestion pipeline.

Complete this interactive guide directly in your Grafana Cloud stack with an interactive learning experience.

The recommended order to remediate cardinality:

Address unused metrics: metrics with the Unused badge in the Cardinality tab add cost with no value.
Assess high-cardinality labels on used metrics: aggregate away the label dimensions nobody queries, and keep the ones they do.
Protect what matters: define exemptions in allowlists for metrics that must never be aggregated.

This interactive guide puts Adaptive Metrics into practice. Work through it to review the recommendations for your own stack.

When you start remediating, order matters. Address unused metrics first, because anything with the Unused badge adds cost with no value.

Next, assess the high-cardinality labels on metrics people do use. Aggregate away the label dimensions nobody queries, and keep the ones they do.

Finally, protect what matters. Define exemptions in allowlists for metrics that must never be aggregated.