Grafana Cloud Adaptive Metrics

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/reduce-costs/metrics-costs/adaptive-metrics.md

Aggregation rules that pre-shrink high-cardinality metrics before storage — directly reduces active-series billing.

Prerequisites

• Grafana Cloud Metrics plan (any paid tier)
• API key with metrics:write (for the Adaptive Metrics API — adaptive-metrics.grafana.net, Bearer auth)
• For the verification queries: the metrics query endpoint (prometheus-prod-XX.grafana.net) uses HTTP basic auth — <metrics_user> (numeric stack/instance ID) plus a token with metrics:read — not the Bearer key
• Access to Home → Adaptive Metrics in the Cloud portal

Common Workflows

1. Review + apply auto-recommendations