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slug: /metrics/manage-metric-volume
title: Understand and Manage Metric Volume
sidebar_label: Understand and Manage Metric Volume
description: Learn about how metric ingestion and storage, metric data limits, and how metric throttling works.
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume/
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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.

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

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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume/data-limits-for-metrics')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/investigate.png')} alt="Investigate icon" width="40"/><h4>Data Limits for Metrics</h4></a>
  <p>Get to know the volume of metrics that you are ingesting into Sumo Logic.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume/disabled-metrics-sources')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Disabled Metrics Sources</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to remove the limits set on the number of ingested time series.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume/metric-ingestion-and-storage')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/sensor.png')} alt="Sensor icon" width="40"/><h4>Metric Ingestion and Storage</h4></a>
  <p>Learn about how Sumo Logic stores raw and rolled up metrics data.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/manage-metric-volume/metric-throttling')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/cloud/performance.png')} alt="Performance icon" width="40"/><h4>Metric Throttling</h4></a>
  <p>Get information on how Sumo Logic throttles metric when metrics ingestion exceeds your DPM limit.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/metrics/source-and-collector-cardinality')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Source and Collector Wise Cardinality</h4></a>
  <p>Identify and analyze source and collector-level cardinality to pinpoint high-cardinality sources.</p>
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