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title: "Create exemptions | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to create exemptions to ensure critical log streams and labels are preserved and excluded from optimization recommendations."
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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).

# Create exemptions

Prevent certain logs from being dropped even if they are not being queried heavily.

To create a new exemption, complete the following steps.

1. Select the **Exemptions** tab.
2. Click **Add new exemption**.
3. In the Add exemption window, enter a valid stream selector.
4. Optionally provide business context in the **Reason** field.
5. Click **Save**.

You can remove or update exemptions at any time.

It may take up to fifteen days for an exempted pattern to disappear from the Adaptive Logs user interface, but any attempts to apply recommendations to an exempted pattern has no effect and logs matching an exempted pattern are not dropped.

In the next milestone, you’ll learn how segmentation helps teams manage Adaptive Logs for their own services.

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### More to explore (optional)

At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths:

- [Create exemptions](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-logs/create-exemptions/)
- [Pause Adaptive Logs](/docs/grafana-cloud/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-logs/create-exemptions/pause-adaptive-logs/)