The value of Adaptive Metrics
As your observability footprint grows, metric data can multiply fast — often faster than you need it to.
Adaptive Metrics is enabled by default, continuously analyzing your metric usage in the background to find optimization opportunities.
This helps you:
- Lower ingestion and storage costs
- Speed up dashboards and queries
- Maintain observability quality as your environment grows
- Automate ongoing optimization to prevent metric sprawl
You can arrive at Adaptive Metrics from different Grafana workflows depending on the problem you’re trying to solve.
No matter where you begin, this journey shows how to analyze and optimize metrics, so you keep only the data that delivers value.
Common entry points
In the next milestone, you learn how Adaptive Metrics works.
More to explore (optional)
At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths: