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To take control of your telemetry data, Chronosphere Observability Platform provides multiple tools you can use to identify and eliminate data that isn’t used and doesn’t deliver value to your business. Use the Chronosphere Control Plane to reduce the amount of data retained in your system over time. Create shaping rules to drop data before it reaches Observability Platform, aggregate and rewrite data into more manageable and usable statistics, and alias expressions to improve data queries and references.

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Shape metric data

Use the Chronosphere Control Plane to shape your metric data and reduce the amount of data you persist. Manage your telemetry data with tools that help you shape that traffic, such as creating drop rules, quotas, and aggregation rules.

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Sample trace data

Create trace datasets that map tracing license consumption to relevant business units in your organization. Datasets let you track and measure trace data usage over time before you implement proactive sampling strategies, whereas head and tail sampling alone require you to measure and implement together. You can then apply behaviors to set sampling rules for your datasets without having to write, coordinate, and manage head and tail sampling rules individually.

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Control log data

Understanding your license consumption helps identify where you’re spending the most money on your log data, and which services or operations are consuming the most of your license capacity. Control log data to determine what portion of your license is allocated to the most important data.

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Review impact

After creating rules that shape and sample your data, use the tools that Observability Platform provides to review rule impact and ensure the rules you created have the intended outcome.