Understand and Manage Metric Volume

This guide has information about how Sumo ingests and saves metric data, source-specific metric collection volume facts, Sumo features for limiting excessive metric ingestion, and how to track your metrics ingestion.

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

Data Limits for Metrics

Get to know the volume of metrics that you are ingesting into Sumo Logic.

Disabled Metrics Sources

Learn how to remove the limits set on the number of ingested time series.

Metric Ingestion and Storage

Learn about how Sumo Logic stores raw and rolled up metrics data.

Metric Throttling

Get information on how Sumo Logic throttles metric when metrics ingestion exceeds your DPM limit.