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update wording re config for mimir vs grafana cloud
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tacole02 committed Mar 8, 2025
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OpenTelemetry metrics use resource attributes to describe the set of characteristics associated with a given resource, or entity, producing telemetry data. For example, a host resource might have multiple attributes, including an ID, an image, and a type.

To optimize the storage of and ability to query this data, Mimir automatically assigns the following OTel resource attributes as labels at the time of ingestion, with periods (`.`) replaced by underscores (`_`):
To optimize the storage of and ability to query this data, you can configure Mimir to promote specified OTel resource attributes to labels at the time of ingestion, with periods (`.`) replaced by underscores (`_`).

Grafana Cloud automatically promotes the following OTel resource attributes to labels:

- `service.instance.id`
- `service.name`
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- `k8s.replicaset.name`
- `k8s.statefulset.name`

If you are using Grafana Cloud, contact support to disable this setting or to update this list.
Contact support to disable this setting or to update this list.

{{< admonition type="note" >}}
Some of these labels are mutually exclusive. If you don't need a particular label, you can aggregate it using Adaptive Metrics. For more information about Adaptive Metrics, refer to [Reduce metrics costs via Adaptive Metrics](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/adaptive-telemetry/adaptive-metrics/).
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