How to block some out-of-the-box metrics

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I know Temporal provides a lot of metrics out-of-the-box but the cardinality seems too high. My backend has a hard time handling high cardinality metrics. Is there any way I can block some of them? I’m particularly looking to block metrics like this one “namespace.mynamespace.operation.TaskQueueMgr.taskqueue.__sys_10_blabla_7d7df6cb78_zmhzs_004a1ce7_c3b3_49d4_blabla_c3da1217a869_49”

Update: we use statsd and I know from here, looks like we can only allow metrics that match particular prefixes to emit, but can not block metrics.

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@Wenquan_Xing @samar anyway to block certain metrics based on prefix besides modify the code?

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We don’t have any mechanism in Temporal itself. But many metric backend support filtering of metrics based on rules.