Metric limits

Chronosphere metrics have a variety of limits, depending on where your data is in the processing cycle.

Your license limits the amount of data you can write to and store within Chronosphere.

Metrics have the following size limits, which help ensure consistency and prevent issues with queries:

• Label names: 512 characters
• Label values: 1,024 characters
• Max number of labels: 64 labels
• Total time series bytes: 4,096 characters

Metrics quotas assign specific percentages of your total persisted writes limit to pools of metrics. Use quotas to limit groups of metrics and ensure Chronosphere retains the highest value metrics.

See Managing invalid metrics for information about debugging invalid metrics.

Late-arriving metrics

Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other metric formats include one or more timestamp values for each data point. These values indicate when a sample was observed, or represent the time range of the data point. Chronosphere Observability Platform can accept late-arriving data points within a time frame, depending whether the data point matches an aggregation rule or is ingested without aggregation:

• Aggregation rules accept data points from two minutes to eight minutes past the current ingestion time.
• Raw data points can be written to the database up to two hours before the ingestion timestamp.

Future-arriving metrics

Observability Platform accepts incoming metrics one minute ahead of the current timestamp. If metrics arrive outside of this one-minute buffer, Observability Platform rejects those metrics and returns an error indicating that metrics arrived too far into the future.