How to manage cardinality with out-of-the-box dashboards in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs has developed cardinality management dashboards to aid Grafana Cloud users in monitoring and managing metrics cardinality, a crucial aspect for maintaining efficient system performance and cost management. These dashboards, which include Overview, Metrics, and Labels dashboards, allow users to analyze data from a broad overview to specific metrics or labels, helping identify and potentially reduce high cardinality issues. By offering insights into which metrics and labels are most impactful, users can make informed decisions about retaining, removing, or reducing these elements. For instance, users can limit the number of label values or store data as logs to manage cardinality effectively. The dashboards facilitate understanding of data source origins and imbalances, providing strategies to streamline metrics and labels for optimal use. This tool emphasizes the importance of storing only necessary information, with the flexibility to introduce new labels or values if needed. Grafana encourages users to provide feedback on the dashboards' utility and offers a free trial of Grafana Cloud Pro, promoting its capabilities for enhanced observability.