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Access management for managing cardinality

As an Authentication Domain Manager, perform the following steps to grant access to a user for managing account and metrics cardinality. Check with the user about their specific needs and accordingly do the configuration. To learn more about user management, refer to User management tutorial.

Add permissions to a custom role

Create a new custom role with the following permissions, or add them to an existing role. Check with the user to understand the level of access required.

  • Manage account cardinality: Adjust the cardinality budget of the account.
    • View: Can see the cardinality budget of the account.
    • Modify: Can update the cardinality budget of the account.
  • Manage metric cardinality: Adjust the cardinality budget of metrics.
    • View: Can see the cardinality budget of the metrics.
    • Modify: Can update the cardinality budget of the metrics.
  • Manage pruning rules: Manage pruning rules for metrics.
    • View: Can see the pruning rules of the metrics.
    • Modify: Can create and delete pruning rules for the metrics.
  • Customer limits management: Adjust limits of different capabilities in the account including cardinality.
    • View: Can see the limits available for the capabilities.
    • Modify: Can adjust the limits of the capabilities.

Add user, role, and account to a group

For the cardinality management, create a new group or manage an existing group as follows:

  1. Navigate to New Relic Administration > Access Management > Groups.
  2. Click Create a new group, or select Manage group access from the menu of an existing group.
  3. For a new group, provide a name and click Create group. The Admin pane for the group opens.
  4. Under Members, add the user.
  5. Under Account access, associate the custom role with the desired account for cardinality management.
  6. If cardinality management involves multiple accounts, under Account access, include the custom role for each relevant account within the group.

Manage cardinality

Learn how to maintain cardinality within its budget, and when needed how to adjust it.

Monitor cardinality

Learn how to monitor cardinality usage.

Understand and query high cardinality metrics

Understand the concept of cardinality and learn how to query and analyze high cardinality metrics using NRQL.

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