# Datadog Custom Metrics Optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

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1 documented Datadog Custom Metrics cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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1 documented Datadog Custom Metrics cost inefficiency, with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 1 inefficiency

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- Datadog Custom Metrics  CER-0540

### [High-Cardinality Tags Inflating Datadog Custom Metrics](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/high-cardinality-tags-inflating-datadog-custom-metrics)

Under Datadog's cardinality-based pricing, a custom metric is a unique combination of a metric name and tag values, including the host tag. Every new tag value creates a new billable timeseries, so a metric tagged with an unbounded...

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