Block metrics you don't need from being ingested, so you won't be billed for them.

Mark a metric as spam

1. Go to Metrics → Schema and select your sources.
2. Hover over the metric, open its ⋯ menu, and select Mark as spam.
3. Click Mark as spam to confirm.

New data for the metric isn't ingested or billed, and data you already have is kept. We add the metric to the Metrics marked as spam list of every selected source that has it, and the success message links to each list. If the metric is defined in Extract metrics, that definition is removed too.

Edit metrics marked as spam

Every source that receives metrics has its own list.

1. Go to Sources → your source or collector → Configure → Advanced settings.
2. Under Metrics marked as spam, add the exact metric names, one per line, or remove a name to ingest that metric again.
3. Click Save changes, or Save & apply on a collector.

To bring back a metric that came from Extract metrics, also create it there again.

Remove a label

On the Schema page, labels from Extract metrics have Remove label in their ⋯ menu instead of Mark as spam. Removing a label takes its definition out of Extract metrics on the selected sources, so we stop extracting it, and existing data is kept. Nothing is added to Metrics marked as spam, so to undo it, create the label again in Extract metrics.