around for this can be found <a href=/v1.17/about/faq/#metric-expiry>here</a>.</p></li></ul></div><h5 id=metric-expiry class=question>How can I manage short-lived metrics?</h5><div class=answer><p>Short-lived metrics can hamper the performance of Prometheus, as they often are a large source of label cardinality. Cardinality is a measure of the number of unique values for a label. To manage the impact of your short-lived metrics on Prometheus, you must first identify the high cardinality metrics and labels. 