A performance change should improve the measured workload without sacrificing correctness or wasting capacity. Which measurements and bottlenecks should be considered first?

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Measure ingestion rate, active series and query cost. Reduce unnecessary label combinations and use recording rules for repeated expensive expressions. Increasing memory without controlling cardinality can postpone rather than solve the underlying growth problem.

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