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**Status**: [Experimental](../document-status.md)

SDKs SHOULD support being configured with a cardinality limit. The number of
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unique combinations of attributes is called cardinality. For a given metric, the
cardinality limit is a hard limit on the number of metric points that can be
collected during a collection cycle.
unique attributes sets passed by a user is called cardinality. For a given
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metric, the cardinality limit is a hard limit on the number of metric points
that can be collected during a collection cycle.

#### Configuration

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