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Software Telemetry
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Software Telemetry

by Jamie Riedesel
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
18h 5m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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14 Managing cardinality in telemetry

This chapter covers

  • How cardinality affects telemetry performance
  • Ways to identify cardinality problems
  • Techniques for managing cardinality

This chapter dives deep into one of the maintenance headaches of managing telemetry systems: cardinality in your storage systems. Here is the definition of cardinality from chapter 1:

Definition Cardinality is the term for index complexity—specifically, the number of unique combinations the fields in the index may produce. If you have fields A and B, where A has two possible values and B has three possible values, the cardinality of that index is A * B, or 2 * 3 = 6. Cardinality significantly affects search performance no matter what data storage system is being used. ...

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