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## [Reduce Prometheus memory usage when scraping Node metrics](https://radixtalk.com/t/reduce-prometheus-memory-usage-when-scraping-node-metrics/66)

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**Author:** [@Stuart](https://radixtalk.com/u/Stuart)\
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**Last updated:** [25 December 2021 14:23 UTC](https://radixtalk.com/t/reduce-prometheus-memory-usage-when-scraping-node-metrics/66 "2021-12-25T14:23:45Z")

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I had a look at my Prometheus time series database stats and noticed that the version\_accumulator label from the nodeinfo metric has the highest cardinality by a significant margin. This is because the value changes ever…