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title: "Monitor and validate results | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to monitor dashboards and metrics volume to confirm applied recommendations and customization are delivering expected outcomes."
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# Monitor and validate results

After reviewing and applying recommendations — or using other customization options — you can now verify that your setup is delivering the results you expect.

Use the **Overview** dashboard for a quick, visual summary of how your applied rules are reducing time series volume.

Open **Adaptive Metrics** to land on the **Overview** dashboard.

From the **Overview** tab, select the segment you want to review (for example, alerting, frontend, backend) from the **Segment** dropdown.

Use the time range picker to include when you first applied rules, and the period after the changes.

Check the graph to confirm that there was a reduction after applying the rules.

Click **Explore** to view more detail on the underlying metric or query.