Commit 428eefb4 authored by Björn Rabenstein's avatar Björn Rabenstein Committed by GitHub

Merge pull request #496 from prometheus/beorn7/doc-improve

Slightly improve wording about series cardinality
parents 28e14885 b5efde7c
......@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Use labels to differentiate the characteristics of the thing that is being measu
Do not put the label names in the metric name, as this introduces redundancy
and will cause confusion if the respective labels are aggregated away.
CAUTION: **CAUTION:** Remember that every unique key-value label pair
represents a new time series, which can dramatically increase the amount of
data stored. Do not use labels to store dimensions with high cardinality (many
different label values), such as user IDs, email addresses, or other unbounded
sets of values.
CAUTION: **CAUTION:** Remember that every unique combination of key-value label
pairs represents a new time series, which can dramatically increase the amount
of data stored. Do not use labels to store dimensions with high cardinality
(many different label values), such as user IDs, email addresses, or other
unbounded sets of values.
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