1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer system comprising computer hardware, an identity of a metric of interest and a future time point; retrieving, by the computer system, a prediction configuration previously associated with the metric of interest, the prediction configuration comprising a period combination; wherein the period combination comprises a plurality of time periods, each time period comprises one or more segments, and each segment of the one or more segments comprises adapted historical values of the metric of interest incrementally inserted therein; for each time period of the plurality of time periods: the computer system identifying, for the future time point, a corresponding segment of the one or more segments; accessing, by the computer system, a set of adapted historical values from the corresponding segment; and computing, by the computer system, an intermediate predicted value from the set of adapted historical values; and calculating, by the computer system, a predicted value for the metric of interest based on the computing.