prometheus-cardinality-troubleshooter
Skill, Apache-2.0 licence, checked 6 November 2026
Diagnoses live Prometheus cardinality problems using tsdb status endpoints, PromQL drill-downs, churn checks and safe whole-metric drop configs.
- Category
- Observability
- Collections
- Cloud and infrastructure
Diagnostic guide for active Prometheus cardinality problems — slow queries, OOMing Prometheus, high Grafana Cloud Active Series or DPM bills, "too many samples" ingest errors, series churn, or rapid memory growth. Walks through tsdb status endpoints, per-metric and per-label drill-downs, common-culp
Source
- Publisher
- grafana
- Repository
- https://github.com/grafana/skills
- Pinned commit
8fb72a527961f05e708f53d2a0500709e12d7970- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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What we checked
Checked on 6 November 2026 with Spellwarden scanner 1.8.1 and rules 2026.11.1.
No open critical or high findings. 2 open medium or low findings.
| Skill | Curation score | Curated | Open findings | Accepted findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
prometheus-cardinality-troubleshooter | 9.1 of 12 | Yes | 0 critical, 0 high, 1 medium, 1 low | None |
Version
Version 1
Approved for the catalog on 6 November 2026.
Last commit on the repository's default branch at the check: 27 October 2026.
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