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  • Grafana Mimir
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  • Get started
    • Grafana Mimir architecture
  • Operator and user guide
    • Deploy on Kubernetes
      • Deploy with Jsonnet and Tanka
        • Deploy with Jsonnet
        • Configure low resources
        • Configure object storage
        • Configure ruler
        • Configure autoscaling
        • Configure deployment mode
        • Migrate from Consul to memberlist
        • Migrate from microservices to read-write mode
        • Migrate query-scheduler to ring-based service discovery
    • Deploy with Puppet
    • Use exemplars
      • About exemplars
      • Before you begin
      • Storing exemplars
      • Viewing exemplar data
    • Monitor Mimir
      • About dashboards and alerts requirements
      • Deploying the monitoring mixin
      • Installing dashboards and alerts
      • Viewing dashboards
        • Overview
        • Overview resources
        • Overview networking
        • Alertmanager
        • Alertmanager resources
        • Compactor
        • Compactor resources
        • Config
        • Object Store
        • Overrides
        • Queries
        • Reads
        • Remote ruler reads
        • Reads networking
        • Reads resources
        • Remote ruler reads resources
        • Rollout progress
        • Ruler
        • Scaling
        • Slow queries
        • Tenants
        • Top tenants
        • Writes
        • Writes networking
        • Writes resources
      • Collecting metrics and logs
    • Secure
      • Authentication and authorization
      • Encrypting data at rest
      • Securing Alertmanager
      • Securing communications with TLS
    • Run in production
      • Planning capacity
      • Perform a rolling update
      • Scaling out
      • Production tips
    • Tools
      • Listblocks
      • Tenant injector
      • Query-tee
      • Mimir-continuous-test
      • Mimirtool
    • Runbooks
  • Configure
    • About configurations
    • About tenant IDs
    • About DNS service discovery
    • About anonymous usage statistics reporting
    • About IP address logging of a reverse proxy
    • About runtime configuration
    • About versioning
    • Hash rings
    • Object storage
    • High-availability deduplication
    • Metrics storage retention
    • Shuffle sharding
    • Query-frontend to work with Prometheus
    • Custom active series trackers
    • Tracing
    • Zone-aware replication
    • Out-of-order samples ingestion
    • TSDB block upload
    • Mirror requests to a second cluster
    • OpenTelemetry Collector
    • Native histograms
  • Migrate
    • Migrate from Cortex
    • Migrate from Thanos or Prometheus
    • Migrate from Thanos using Thanos sidecar
  • Tutorials
    • Play with Grafana Mimir
  • References
    • Architecture
      • Deployment modes
      • Components
        • Compactor
        • Distributor
        • Ingester
        • Querier
        • Query-frontend
        • Store-gateway
        • (Optional) Alertmanager
        • (Optional) Overrides-exporter
        • (Optional) Query-scheduler
        • (Optional) Ruler
      • Binary index-header
      • Bucket index
      • Hash rings
      • Key-value store
      • Memberlist and gossip protocol
      • Query sharding
    • HTTP API
    • Configuration parameters
    • Glossary
    • Learning resources
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Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.

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