Use Adaptive Metrics to reduce cardinality
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Use Adaptive Metrics to reduce cardinality

Adaptive Metrics helps you address increased cardinality and lower your Grafana Cloud costs.

Set up the Adaptive Metrics HTTP API and upload the following aggregation rules to add the collector_id label to exported metrics:

json 
{
  "rules": [
    {
      "metric": "traces_spanmetrics_latency_sum",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_spanmetrics_latency_count",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_spanmetrics_latency_bucket",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_spanmetrics_calls_total",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_spanmetrics_size_total",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_total",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_failed_total",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_server_seconds_sum",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_server_seconds_count",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_server_seconds_bucket",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_client_seconds_bucket",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id", "namespace", "source"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_client_seconds_sum",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id", "namespace", "source"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "traces_service_graph_request_client_seconds_count",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id", "namespace", "source"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    },
    {
      "metric": "target_info",
      "drop_labels": ["collector_id"],
      "aggregations": ["sum:counter"]
    }
  ]
}