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  • Get started
    • Grafana Mimir architecture
    • Download GEM
  • Set up
    • GEM hardware requirements
    • Migrate
      • Migrate from Cortex
      • Migrate from Thanos or Prometheus
      • Migrate from Thanos using Thanos sidecar
    • Deploy with Helm
    • Set up the GEM plugin for Grafana
    • Set up a GEM tenant
    • Upgrade from Grafana Enterprise Metrics 1.7
  • 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
    • Use exemplars
      • About exemplars
      • Before you begin
      • Store exemplars
      • View exemplar data
    • Run in production
      • Planning capacity
      • Perform a rolling update
      • Scaling out
      • Production tips
    • Secure
      • Authentication and authorization
      • Encrypting data at rest
      • Securing Alertmanager
      • Securing communications with TLS
      • Secure GEM
    • Monitor
      • Monitor GEM
      • Self-monitoring
        • Use the overrides exporter
      • Monitor Mimir
        • Monitor system health
        • 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 networking
          • Remote ruler reads resources
          • Rollout progress
          • Ruler
          • Scaling
          • Slow queries
          • Tenants
          • Top tenants
          • Writes
          • Writes networking
          • Writes resources
        • Collecting metrics and logs
      • Monitor compactor health
    • Tools
      • Listblocks
      • Tenant injector
      • Query-tee
      • Mimir-continuous-test
      • Mimirtool
    • Runbooks
    • Integrate with Graphite
      • Architecture overview
      • Use the Graphite querier
      • Use the Graphite write proxy
      • Work with schemas
      • Troubleshoot
    • Integrate with Datadog
  • Send data
    • Native histograms
    • OpenTelemetry exponential histograms
  • Query
    • Query metric labels
  • Visualize
    • Native histograms
  • APIs
    • HTTP API
    • GEM Admin API
      • Leadership election
      • Audit logging
    • GEM Node API
  • Reference
    • Troubleshoot GEM
    • Glossary
    • Advanced 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
      • Mimir query engine
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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
  • Use exemplars
  • Run in production
  • Secure
  • Monitor
  • Tools
  • Runbooks
  • Integrate with Graphite
  • Integrate with Datadog

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