victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis

victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from VictoriaMetrics/skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (4,320 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A VictoriaMetrics analysis workflow for examining how many time series a monitoring system stores and which labels create that volume. VictoriaMetrics is a database for time-series monitoring data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify high-cardinality metrics and labels, inspect problematic values such as UUIDs or SQL text, and produce relabeling or stream-aggregation recommendations.
Why use it?
It reveals unused metrics, labels with too many distinct values, and other sources of unnecessary storage and query load.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the diagnostics plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps identify high-cardinality metrics and labels, inspect problematic values such as UUIDs or SQL text, and produce relabeling or stream-aggregation recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/victoriametrics/skills/victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/skills --skill victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install diagnostics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00113 $0.04320
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02160
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00864
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00432

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5ab699a4bf2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

​```yaml metric_relabel_configs: - regex: "user_id|request_id|session_id|trace_id|error_message|sql_query" action: labeldrop ​``` </details> <details> <summary>Stream aggregation for high-cardinality HTTP labels</summary

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(curl:*), Bash(jq:*), Bash(date:*)
plugins/diagnostics/skills/victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis/SKILL.md · 466 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 466 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VictoriaMetrics Cardinality Analysis

Systematic cardinality analysis for VictoriaMetrics. Collects TSDB status, metric usage stats, and label value patterns, then produces a structured report with specific relabeling and stream aggregation configs the user can apply directly.

The goal is to find the highest-impact optimization opportunities — metrics nobody queries, labels that explode cardinality for no monitoring value, and patterns that indicate data hygiene problems (error messages as labels, SQL text as labels, UUIDs as labels).

Environment

Uses the same env vars as the victoriametrics-query skill:

# $VM_METRICS_URL - base URL
#   cluster: export VM_METRICS_URL="https://vmselect.example.com/select/0/prometheus"
#   single: export VM_METRICS_URL="http://localhost:8428"
# $VM_CURL_CONFIG - curl config file with auth header (unset if no auth is required)
#   Remote: export VM_CURL_CONFIG="$HOME/.config/victoriametrics/curl.conf"
#   Local:  leave unset (defaults to /dev/null - no auth)

Workflow

Phase 1: Data Collection

Spawn 3 subagents in a single response to collect data in parallel. Each subagent prompt must include the curl auth pattern and environment variable references above.

If the user specified a scope (job, namespace, metric prefix), pass it as match[] parameter to TSDB status queries and as series selectors to label queries.


Subagent 1: TSDB Overview

Agent name: cardinality-tsdb | Description: "Collect TSDB cardinality stats"

Query 1 — Yesterday's series (captures recently churned series):

curl -q --config "${VM_CURL_CONFIG:-/dev/null}" -s \
  "$VM_METRICS_URL/api/v1/status/tsdb?topN=50&date=$(date -d 'yesterday' +%Y-%m-%d)" | jq '.data'

Queries yesterday's stats — broader than today (includes series that may have already churned) without scanning the entire TSDB.

Query 2 — Today's active series:

curl -q --config "${VM_CURL_CONFIG:-/dev/null}" -s \
  "$VM_METRICS_URL/api/v1/status/tsdb?topN=50" | jq '.data'

Read the full file on GitHub · 466 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 466 lines · 113 tokens per session scan C 5ab699a4bf2c

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victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository VictoriaMetrics/skills (54 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 4,320 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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