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Manage GEM

The following topics overview some of the different aspects of managing a GEM cluster:

  • Manage a tenant
  • Gateway
  • Integrate with OAuth
  • Forward metrics with remote-write
  • Cross-cluster query federation
  • Use alerting
  • Create tokens with tokengen
  • Runbooks
  • Secure
  • Monitor
  • Integrate with Graphite
  • Integrate with Datadog

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  • Set up
    • GEM hardware requirements
    • Set up the GEM plugin for Grafana
    • Set up a GEM tenant
    • Upgrade from Grafana Enterprise Metrics 1.7
  • Download GEM
  • Configure
    • Configure Mimir
    • Configure GEM
      • Reference
      • Recommended limits
  • Manage
    • Manage a tenant
      • Monitor GEM usage
      • Set per-tenant resource usage limits
      • Use label-based access control (LBAC)
      • Manage cardinality
      • Use tenant federation
    • Gateway
    • Integrate with OAuth
    • Forward metrics with remote-write
    • Cross-cluster query federation
    • Use alerting
    • Create tokens with tokengen
    • Runbooks
    • Secure
      • Secure GEM
    • Monitor
      • Monitor GEM
      • Self-monitoring
        • Use the overrides exporter
      • Monitor compactor health
    • Integrate with Graphite
      • Architecture overview
      • Use the Graphite querier
      • Use the Graphite write proxy
      • Work with schemas
      • Troubleshoot
    • Integrate with Datadog
  • APIs
    • GEM Admin API
      • Leadership election
      • Audit logging
    • GEM Node API
  • Reference
    • Troubleshoot GEM
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