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Merge pull request #496 from prometheus/beorn7/doc-improve
Slightly improve wording about series cardinality
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@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Use labels to differentiate the characteristics of the thing that is being measu
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@@ -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
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.
and will cause confusion if the respective labels are aggregated away.
CAUTION:
**CAUTION:**
Remember that every unique
key-value label pair
CAUTION:
**CAUTION:**
Remember that every unique
combination of key-value label
represents a new time series, which can dramatically increase the amount of
pairs represents a new time series, which can dramatically increase the amount
data stored. Do not use labels to store dimensions with high cardinality (man
y
of data stored. Do not use labels to store dimensions with high cardinalit
y
different label values), such as user IDs, email addresses, or other unbounded
(many different label values), such as user IDs, email addresses, or other
sets of values.
unbounded
sets of values.
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