Manage metrics & logging costs with Grafana Cloud + Log Volume Explorer demo
summary
Shows Adaptive Metrics (GA) that scans dashboards, recording rules and recent queries to recommend dropping unused labels and creating aggregation rules (count or sum_counter) so ingestion drops—example metric goes from ~24,000 active series to a much smaller aggregated set while queries return identical results thanks to transparent query handling. Demonstrates clicking “apply” to push rules into the API and a live Log Volume Explorer (public preview) that breaks a 633 GB/month total down by label (cluster, namespace) and surfaces ingestion-rate spikes for root-cause analysis.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:53What's the point of cost management?
- 4:37How Grafana thinks about cost management
- 5:44Grafana's Cost Management Hub
- 6:18Overview of Adaptive Metrics (GA)
- 7:01Analyzing metrics and usage with Adaptive Metrics (including UI preview)
- 9:40Aggregating series with Adaptive Metrics (how it works)
- 12:19A practical example of aggregating series
- 15:16Advanced use cases of Adaptive Metrics
- 17:14Introducing the Log Volume Explorer (demo)
- 22:57The future of the Cost Management /hub
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