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title: "Grafana Enterprise Metrics | Grafana Enterprise Metrics documentation"
description: "Grafana Enterprise Metrics Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) is a commercial offering based on the open source project Grafana Mimir. The commercial offering allows you to deploy a scalable, simple, and reliable Metrics cluster in your own data center. Overview With GEM, you get access to the following features:"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Grafana Enterprise Metrics

Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) is a commercial offering based on the open source project [Grafana Mimir](/oss/mimir/). The commercial offering allows you to deploy a scalable, simple, and reliable Metrics cluster in your own data center.

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## Overview

With GEM, you get access to the following features:

- **Tenant management** to easily scale from one to hundreds of metrics tenants on a single GEM cluster. Each tenant provides an isolated logical separation of the cluster. Operators have full control over the tenants running on their cluster, by either using the built-in API directly or the official Grafana Labs GEM plugin.
- **Token-based authentication** to create and manage tokens with configurable access parameters to interact with Metrics tenants.
- **Remote-write rule forwarding** to forward series from your metrics tenant to any Prometheus remote-write compatible endpoint.
- **Fine-grained access control** to have granular control over what access your users have to data stored in GEM.
- **Scalability enhancements** like time-based sharding during compaction which allow GEM to support single tenants with hundreds of millions of active series.
- **Out-of-the-box self monitoring** to provide metrics and dashboards that make it easy to understand the health of your GEM deployment without any external dependencies or setup required.
- **Per-tenant usage insights** so that GEM operators can compare the read and write volumes of different tenants within their cluster and compare those volumes to each tenant’s custom limits.
- **OSS Grafana Mimir compatible** to ensure the `enterprise-metrics` binary can be seamlessly dropped into an existing Grafana Mimir deployment.

## Explore

[Set up GEM  
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Get a license, deploy your cluster, configure cluster limits, and secure your data and communication paths.](./set-up/)

[Ingest and query Graphite metrics  
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Use the Graphite API to ingest Graphite metrics and query them using the Graphite query language.](./manage/graphite/)

[Manage a tenant  
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Create multiple tenants and manage their corresponding authentication resources to help manage your cluster. A GEM tenant can store metrics and handle queries for those metrics.](./manage/tenant-management/)

[Manage resources with the Admin API  
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Manage the resources in your cluster, including tenants and tokens, with the Admin API. The Admin API extends the standard API endpoints that come with Grafana Mimir.](./api/admin-api/)

[Configure GEM  
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Configure GEM settings using the Grafana Enterprise Metrics configuration file. This file is a superset of configurations from Grafana Mimir.](./configure/config-gem/)

[Manage GEM  
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Monitor compactor health, proxy requests to other GEM microservices, integrate with OAuth 2.0, and manage GEM metrics.](./manage/)

## Try GEM

To purchase or obtain a trial license contact the Grafana Labs [Sales Team](/contact?about=support&topic=Grafana%20Metrics%20Enterprise).

To download the GEM binary, visit the [download page](/docs/enterprise-metrics/latest/get-started/download-gem/).