Ingestion & Query Limits

This guide outlines the metering limits Coralogix applies to metrics usage per team.

Limits are numerical thresholds tracked based on usage. Each limit has an associated meter that monitors whether it has been exceeded.

Metering units

To maintain a consistent and predictable user experience, Coralogix sets usage limits per team based on daily and hourly metering units.

Metering unit	Definition	Additional notes
Day	Begins at midnight (00:00) UTC and spans 24 hours	Metrics from one day may carry over into the next day
Hour	Begins at the start of each hour (e.g., 00:00, 01:00) and lasts exactly one hour, ending at 59 minutes and 59.999 seconds (e.g., 00:00 - 00:59:59.999)	Metrics from one hour may carry over into the next hour

Limit name	Description	Limit
Label length	String length of a label value	4,096
Max labels	Maximum number of labels per metric	100

Meter name	Description	Limit
Unique metric names	Number of unique metric names per team	No limit
Total unique series	Unique time series (cardinality) ingested per team per day A time series is a single, unique combination of a metric name and any attributes	No limit
Max datapoints per min	Max number of total data points per minute	10M
Unique series per metric	Unique time series (cardinality) ingested per metric name per day	No limit

Meter name	Description	Entity	Limit
Total series analyzed	Number of time series (cardinality) analyzed in a query	Recording Rules, Alerts, Dashboards	300k
Total samples analyzed	Total number of samples analyzed from the storage per query	Recording Rules, Alerts, Dashboards	300k