SREcon24 Americas - The Sins of High Cardinality

SREcon24 Americas - The Sins of High Cardinality

Jef Spaleta, Isovalent

High cardinality is a sin in observability metrics collection. Cardinality in the form of granular labels or other metadata can cause exponential growth in your observability time-series storage and compute resources; costing money and slowing down queries. It's not always economical nor practical to collect all possible metrics with all possible labels and then worry about how to extract value using queries after the fact. Sure, we want as …

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