Grafana Cloud Adaptive Metrics Adaptive Metrics analyses your Prometheus metrics usage and suggests aggregation rules that reduce series count without breaking any queries. Rules pre-aggregate high-cardinality metrics into lower-cardinality forms before storage. How it works: 1. Adaptive Metrics scans your metric usage (dashboards, alerts, recording rules) over a lookback window 2. It identifies labels that are never queried for a given metric 3. It generates aggregation rules that drop those labels, reducing series count 4. The original high-cardinality metric is still ingested but the aggre…