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Metrics Rollups

You can compact and discard some of your metrics as it ages to focus on the data that matters. Rollups let you aggregate many time series by excluding labels, optimizing your costs and performance.

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Only Account Admins can access the Data Hub and utilize Metric rollups.

Create a Rollup​

To create a Metric Rollup, navigate to Data Hub > Rollups and click on the Add a Rollup rule button.

Choose the Metrics account you'd like to use. Next, select the metric. The dropdown menu includes all of the metrics inside the chosen account.

Then you'll need to select the labels inside the metrics you'd like to ignore. The dropdown will auto-generate the available labels inside the chosen metric.

Finally, choose the type of metric. Choosing Gauge requires an additional step of selecting the aggregation function.

Once your Rollup is ready, click on Create Rollup.

Rollup table

View and manage your Rollups​

Once you've created one or more Rollups, they'll appear in a table view.

The table includes the following details:

  • Metric name - The name of the metric chosen for this Rollup.
  • Account name - The account to which this metric is related.
  • Excluded labels - The labels to which you've decided to apply the Rollup.
  • Metric type - An indication of the chosen metric's type.
  • Rollup function - This column indicates the selected function for gauge metric types.

Rollup table

Rolled-Up Counter Metrics Behavior​

Important

When applying rollups to counter metrics, the result may appear non-monotonic (e.g., dropping to 0), even though it is still a counter.

This happens because rollups aggregate multiple time series, which can introduce resets in the data. This effect is more noticeable over short time ranges.

How to interpret correctly Use functions like 'rate()' or 'increase()' Results should remain consistent with the original metric for calculations

While the graph may look different, the underlying data is still valid.