prometheus-label-strategy
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Expert evaluator for Prometheus label strategy on Grafana Cloud. Audits, designs, and improves label schemas using cardinality scoring, access-pattern alignment, static vs. dynamic label rules, histogram bucket discipline, and instrumentation hygiene. Prevents high cardinality at the source — in application code and scrape target labels — without dropping labels that make series unique (which breaks the data). For reducing the cost of series already in Grafana Cloud, routes to the adaptive-metrics skill. Use when the user asks to evaluate, audit, design, or improve Prometheus labels — or asks how to prevent high cardinality at the source. For "why is my Prometheus slow / expensive right now" triage, see prometheus-cardinality-troubleshooter.
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npx skills add grafana/skills --skill prometheus-label-strategy -a claude-code
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