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Metrics User Guides

SigNoz Cloud - This page applies to SigNoz Cloud editions.
Self-Host - This page applies to self-hosted SigNoz editions.
Drop Metrics

Remove unwanted metrics at ingestion time to reduce storage and costs

Dropping Metric Labels

Understand why dropping metric labels does not reduce cardinality, and learn the correct alternatives

Kubernetes HPA with SigNoz Metrics

Deploy the community metrics adapter and scale Kubernetes workloads with the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler using metrics from SigNoz

Volume Control

Reduce metric cardinality and cost by aggregating away high-cardinality attributes at storage with per-metric volume control rules

Last updated: July 27, 2026

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