Telco system, that creates series per Access Point Name (APN) name as label 
value (similar to a user-id or a pod-IP but very much important to record)

/Teja
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 1:52:19 PM UTC+2 Stuart Clark wrote:

> On 14/06/2022 12:32, tejaswini vadlamudi wrote:
> > Thanks Stuart, this expectation is coming as a legacy requirement for 
> > a Telco cloud-native application that has huge cardinality (3000 
> > values for a label-1) and little dimensionality (2 labels) for 300 
> > metrics.
> >
> > Is there any recommendation like not more than 1k or 10k series per 
> > endpoint?
>
> The general expectation is that each Prometheus server would have no 
> more than a few million time series in total. The normal use case is to 
> have 10s/100s of jobs & targets, each exposing 100s/1000s of time 
> series, rather than a single target exposing significant number of time 
> series itself.
>
> If this is a single application what is the need for that level of 
> cardinality? For example something like a high volume e-commerce system 
> with millions of users might only need labels with say a cardinality of 
> a few 10s/100s each (for example HTTP status code, section of website, 
> etc.). What is it about this system that you think it needs very high 
> cardinality labels?
>
> -- 
> Stuart Clark
>
>

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