lapsed" id=metric-expiry><div class=faq-block-question><span class=faq-block-question__text>How can I manage short-lived metrics?</span><div class=faq-block-question__icon><svg class="icon dropdown-arrow"><use xlink:href="/v1.16/img/icons.svg#dropdown-arrow"/></svg></div></div><div class=faq-block-answer><p><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 