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[Editorial] clarify cardinality limit (#3856)
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reyang authored Feb 15, 2024
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**Status**: [Experimental](../document-status.md)

SDKs SHOULD support being configured with a cardinality limit. A cardinality
limit is the hard limit on the number of metric streams that can be collected.
SDKs SHOULD support being configured with a cardinality limit. The number of
unique combinations of attributes is called cardinality. For a given metric, the
cardinality limit is a hard limit on the number of metric points that can be
collected during a collection cycle.

#### Configuration

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