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Cut Grafana Cloud Metrics cost by shrinking active-series count with Adaptive Metrics aggregation rules — auto-recommendations from query history, custom exact/regex rules, label-drop config, unused-metric detection, and Alloy remote_write fallback. Use when investigating a high Mimir/Grafana Cloud bill, hunting high-cardinality labels (`pod_uid`, `service_instance_id`, `version`), pre-aggregating counters/gauges, dropping unused metrics, or measuring `grafanacloud_instance_active_series` before/after — even when the user says "reduce cardinality", "too many series", "metrics spend", "active series count is exploding", or "drop the version label" without naming Adaptive Metrics.

Probe, load-test, and instrument frontends from Grafana Cloud. Covers Synthetic Monitoring (HTTP / DNS / TCP / Ping / Traceroute / Multihttp / k6-browser scripted checks from 20+ global probes, alert on `probe_success` + TLS-cert expiry), Grafana Cloud k6 (distributed load tests across AWS load-zones, scenarios, `http_req_duration` thresholds, CI integration via `grafana/k6-action`), and Frontend Observability with Faro Web SDK (RUM, Core Web Vitals, custom events, `pushError`, distributed-trace correlation). Use when checking website / API uptime from multiple regions, gating a release on a load test, watching for TLS-cert renewal, instrumenting a React/Vue app, tracking Core Web Vitals, or correlating frontend errors to backend traces — even when the user says "is my login flow up?", "monitor my API", "ping our endpoint every minute", "release-gate load test", "browser performance monitoring", "session replay", or "RUM" without naming Synthetic Monitoring / k6 / Faro.

Audit server-side paid-media measurement including server-side tag management, platform conversion APIs, event taxonomy, browser/server deduplication, consent, hashing, data quality, observability, and privacy. Use for server-side tracking, sGTM, server-side tagging, CAPI, Events API, event_id, pixel debugging, first-party measurement, or conversion data loss.

Author CUE kind definitions for grafana-app-sdk apps - schemas, versioning, field constraints, named type definitions, custom routes, and codegen configuration. Scaffolds kinds via `grafana-app-sdk project kind add`, writes spec/status schemas with type constraints (regex, enum, range), defines `#`-prefixed named types for reusable structs, registers versions in the app manifest, and runs `grafana-app-sdk generate` with explicit error recovery. Use when working with CUE kinds, adding a new resource type, adding a version to an existing kind, writing schema field constraints, defining `#Definition` types, adding custom routes, editing files under `kinds/`, or when the user asks to "model a resource", "add a CUE schema", or "write a kind" — even without saying "CUE" explicitly.

Tend the Allium garden. Use when the user wants to write, edit, update, add to, improve, clarify, refine, restructure, fix or migrate Allium specs. Covers adding entities, rules, triggers, surfaces and contracts, fixing syntax or validation errors, renaming or refactoring within specs, migrating specs to a new language version, and translating requirements into well-formed specifications. Pushes back on vague requirements.

Push Packer build metadata to HCP Packer registry for tracking and managing image lifecycle. Use when integrating Packer builds with HCP Packer for version control and governance.