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[Editorial] clarify cardinality limit #3856

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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions specification/metrics/sdk.md
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Expand Up @@ -731,8 +731,10 @@ of metrics across successive collections.

**Status**: [Experimental](../document-status.md)

SDKs SHOULD support being configured with a cardinality limit. A cardinality
limit is the hard limit on the number of metric streams that can be collected.
SDKs SHOULD support being configured with a cardinality limit. The number of
unique combinations of attributes is called cardinality. For a given metric, the
cardinality limit is a hard limit on the number of metric points that can be
collected during a collection cycle.

#### Configuration

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