VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

Author
Category

Filter: Cardinality

Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

vmestimator is a new open-source tool that estimates metric cardinality in real time. It can alert to high-cardinality spikes before they slow queries and increase resource usage. Works with any Prometheus-compatible setups, Grafana, and vmalert

Cardinality explorer

In monitoring, the term cardinality defines the number of unique time series stored in TSDB. The higher is cardinality, the more resources are usually required for metrics processing and querying. Let’s see how Cardinality explorer can help us here.