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# Quotas and limits in Monitoring

Yandex Monitoring has the following limits:

* [_Quotas_](https://console.yandex.cloud/cloud?section=quotas) are organizational constraints that can be changed by contacting technical support.
* _Limits_ are technical constraints of the Yandex Cloud architecture. You cannot change the limits.

If you need more resources, you can increase your quotas in one of the following ways:

* [Make a request to increase your quotas](https://console.yandex.cloud/cloud?section=quotas).
* Contact [support](https://center.yandex.cloud/support) and specify which quotas you want increased and by how much.

To have your request processed, you must have the `quota-manager.requestOperator` [role](../../iam/roles-reference.md#quota-manager-requestoperator) or higher, e.g., `editor` or `admin`.

You can manage your quotas with [Cloud Quota Manager](../../quota-manager/quickstart.md).

#### Quotas {#monitoring-quotas}

#|
|| Type of limit | Value ||
|| Number of alerts per cloud
`monitoring.alerts.count` | 30,000 ||
|| Number of metrics per service in the folder | 1,000,000 ||
|#

#### General limits {#monitoring-common-limits}
Type of limit | Value
----- | -----
Number of labels per metric<br/>(including required ones) | 16
Number of values per label | 1,000

#### API limits {#monitoring-api-limits}
Type of limit | Value
----- | -----
Maximum number of metrics returned in the data export API request | 500
Maximum number of metrics sent in the data import API request | 10,000
Minimum number of samples returned in the data export API request | 10
Maximum number of samples returned in the data export API request | 10,000
Minimum time interval for exporting metrics | 1 second

#### Alerting limits {#monitoring-alerting-limits}
Type of limit | Value
----- | -----
Number of metrics per alert | 1,000
Number of SMS per number per day | 100