Increase in the current usage for an unknown reason

  • I am using Cloud Grafana.

  • I tried to keep the metric usage under 10,000.

  • I limited the number of metrics and used the Adaptive Metrics tool.

  • I noticed an increase the number of metrics active series.
    The total metrics series panel showed around 11K ( time interval - last 10 days, see 10_days_usage img).
    When I checked total count of series in explore page ( query: sum(count by (_name_)({_name_=~“.+”})) ) I got around 5.7K ( time interval - last 10 days, see total_time_series img)

  • I expect that for Total Metric Series the value should be around 5.67k as there is no reason for it to be doubled.

See imgs for details.

Check yours data points per minute (DPM).