Commit b5efde7c authored by beorn7's avatar beorn7

Slightly improve wording about series cardinality

parent 28e14885
......@@ -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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