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  2. OBSDA-808

LabelKeys enabled for Red Hat Managed LokiStack

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      Proposed title of this feature request

      LabelKeys enabled for Red Hat Managed LokiStack

      What is the nature and description of the request?

      Currently, it's possible to set `clusterlogforwarder.spec.outputs.loki.labelKeys` for when log forwarding to a Red Hat not Managed Loki.

      This RFE is for asking to enable `labelKeys` also for the Red Hat Managed Loki.

      Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements)

      With the default labelKeys, as using pipelines, every day is destroyed and created a big number of pods generating a big cardinality as it can be in the stream label `kubernetes_pod_name` what can lead to Loki performance issues as perfectly described in the Loki upstream documentation  [1] where it's said:

      Note: If the set of labels has high cardinality, this can cause drastic performance issues with Loki. To prevent this from happening, reduce the number of unique label keys and values.

      Having a better control of the labels in Loki will help to optimize and improve the performance of Loki. An example of an output of the Labels cardinality where the `kubernetes_pod_name`  shows a high cardinality in the last 12 hours:

      Label Name                 Unique Values  Found In Streams
      kubernetes_pod_name        7932           15620
      kubernetes_container_name  236            15620
      kubernetes_namespace_name  179            15620
      kubernetes_host            26             15620
      log_type                   1              15620 

      List any affected packages or components.
      LokiStack

       [1] https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/loki/#labels

              jamparke@redhat.com Jamie Parker
              rhn-support-ocasalsa Oscar Casal Sanchez
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