How to Handle High Cardinality Metrics

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High cardinality metrics are metrics that have a large number of unique values. This can occur when the metric is tracking a large number of entities, or when the metric itself has a high number of possible values. For example, a metric that tracks the number of requests per second for a web service would be high cardinality if the web service receives requests from a large number of different users or if the web service…