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

It is important to understand the volume of metrics that you are ingesting into Sumo Logic.

📄️ Disabled Metrics Sources

Sumo Logic sometimes disables metrics Sources in response to excessive volume of time series.

📄️ Metric Ingestion and Storage

How long Sumo stores raw metric data points, one minute roll-ups, and one hour roll-ups.

📄️ Metric Throttling

Information about how Sumo throttles metric when your metrics ingestion exceeds your data points per minute (DPM) burst limit.