prometheus-cardinality-troubleshooter
grafanaFind the series explosion without corrupting your data.
metrics troubleshooting
What it does
Diagnoses active Prometheus cardinality problems and identifies safe remediation paths.
When to use it
Use when the user is currently experiencing a cardinality incident.
How to use it
Give it a current Prometheus performance, memory, or cost problem; it returns a systematic diagnosis and remediation path.
What you provide
- a slow query, OOM, or cost spike
Uses
Access · 1
This skill
Prometheus HTTP API
Reads Prometheus cardinality data
What you need · 8
The main triage workflow inspects an active Prometheus TSDB endpoint.
jq parses the TSDB and label API responses used during diagnosis.
Hands off prevention and future label-strategy design; it is not required for the current diagnosis.
Hands off post-ingest aggregation when metrics must be retained while reducing cost.
About this skill
- Visibility
- Public
- Repository
- grafana/skills
- Created
- Oct 8, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Files
- 1