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Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) - S02E03

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What Is High Cardinality?

High cardinality is the ability to fix out events rather than metrics. metricxs are designed for efficiency, but they only really handle low cardinal dimensions. There's none of the lag when you're using metrics and aggregates. And using the colunder store like honeycombe has, you can then just slice in, dice and perform these queries really fast.

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