Self-hosted Grafana Mimir integration for Grafana Cloud

The Grafana Mimir integration allows you to send self-monitoring metrics and logs from Grafana Mimir or GEM running in your Kubernetes cluster to Grafana Cloud.

This integration comes with pre-built dashboards to help monitor the health of your Mimir or GEM cluster and understand per-tenant usage and behavior.

Note: Coming soon: Pre-configured alerts to signal when your cluster is unhealthy or nearing capacity limits.

Install Self-hosted Grafana Mimir integration for Grafana Cloud

In your Grafana Cloud instance, click Integrations and Connections (lightning bolt icon).
Navigate to the Self-hosted Grafana Mimir tile and review the prerequisites. Then click Install integration.
Once the integration is installed, follow the steps on the Configuration Details page to setup Grafana Agent and start sending Self-hosted Grafana Mimir metrics to your Grafana Cloud instance.

Post-install configuration for the Self-hosted Grafana Mimir integration

This integration is configured to work with the mimir-distributed Helm chart v2.x.x deployed on Kubernetes.

Starting from version 3.0.0, the Helm chart sends metrics to a Prometheus-compatible server and logs to a Loki cluster. Grafana Agent is automatically installed and configured by the Helm chart.

Be sure to modify the chart configuration to provide your Grafana Agent credentials.

For more information on setting up metrics and logs collection, refer to Self-hosted Grafana Mimir integration for Grafana Cloud.

Dashboards

The Self-hosted Grafana Mimir integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your metrics.

Mimir / Alertmanager
Mimir / Alertmanager resources
Mimir / Compactor
Mimir / Compactor resources
Mimir / Config
Mimir / Object Store
Mimir / Overrides
Mimir / Overview
Mimir / Queries
Mimir / Reads
Mimir / Reads networking
Mimir / Reads resources
Mimir / Remote ruler reads
Mimir / Remote ruler reads resources
Mimir / Rollout progress
Mimir / Ruler
Mimir / Scaling
Mimir / Slow queries
Mimir / Tenants
Mimir / Top tenants
Mimir / Writes
Mimir / Writes networking
Mimir / Writes resources

Tenants

Writes resources

Metrics

The following metrics are automatically written to your Grafana Cloud instance through this integration:

cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_alerts_invalid_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_alerts_received_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_partial_state_merges_failed_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_partial_state_merges_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_state_replication_failed_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_alertmanager_state_replication_total:rate5m
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_bucket:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_count:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_sum:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_samples_bucket:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_samples_count:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_samples_sum:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_series_bucket:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_series_count:sum_rate
cluster_job:cortex_ingester_queried_series_sum:sum_rate
cluster_job_integration:cortex_alertmanager_notifications_failed_total:rate5m
cluster_job_integration:cortex_alertmanager_notifications_total:rate5m
cluster_job_pod:cortex_alertmanager_alerts:sum
cluster_job_pod:cortex_alertmanager_silences:sum
cluster_job_route:cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_bucket:sum_rate
cluster_job_route:cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_count:sum_rate
cluster_job_route:cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_sum:sum_rate
cluster_job_route:cortex_request_duration_seconds_bucket:sum_rate
cluster_job_route:cortex_request_duration_seconds_count:sum_rate
cluster_job_route:cortex_request_duration_seconds_sum:sum_rate
cluster_namespace_deployment:actual_replicas:count
cluster_namespace_deployment_reason:required_replicas:count
cluster_namespace_job:cortex_distributor_exemplars_in:rate5m
cluster_namespace_job:cortex_distributor_received_exemplars:rate5m
cluster_namespace_job:cortex_distributor_received_samples:rate5m
cluster_namespace_job:cortex_ingester_ingested_exemplars:rate5m
cluster_namespace_job:cortex_ingester_tsdb_exemplar_exemplars_appended:rate5m
container_cpu_usage_seconds_total
container_fs_writes_bytes_total
container_memory_rss
container_memory_usage_bytes
container_memory_working_set_bytes
container_network_receive_bytes_total
container_network_transmit_bytes_total
container_spec_cpu_period
container_spec_cpu_quota
container_spec_memory_limit_bytes
cortex_alertmanager_alerts
cortex_alertmanager_alerts_invalid_total
cortex_alertmanager_alerts_received_total
cortex_alertmanager_notification_latency_seconds_bucket
cortex_alertmanager_notification_latency_seconds_count
cortex_alertmanager_notification_latency_seconds_sum
cortex_alertmanager_notifications_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_notifications_total
cortex_alertmanager_partial_state_merges_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_partial_state_merges_total
cortex_alertmanager_ring_check_errors_total
cortex_alertmanager_silences
cortex_alertmanager_state_fetch_replica_state_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_fetch_replica_state_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_initial_sync_completed_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_initial_sync_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_alertmanager_state_initial_sync_duration_seconds_count
cortex_alertmanager_state_initial_sync_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_alertmanager_state_persist_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_persist_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_replication_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_state_replication_total
cortex_alertmanager_sync_configs_failed_total
cortex_alertmanager_sync_configs_total
cortex_alertmanager_tenants_discovered
cortex_alertmanager_tenants_owned
cortex_bucket_blocks_count
cortex_bucket_index_load_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_bucket_index_load_duration_seconds_count
cortex_bucket_index_load_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_bucket_index_load_failures_total
cortex_bucket_index_loaded
cortex_bucket_index_loads_total
cortex_bucket_store_block_drop_failures_total
cortex_bucket_store_block_drops_total
cortex_bucket_store_block_load_failures_total
cortex_bucket_store_block_loads_total
cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded
cortex_bucket_store_indexheader_lazy_load_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_bucket_store_indexheader_lazy_load_duration_seconds_count
cortex_bucket_store_indexheader_lazy_load_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_bucket_store_indexheader_lazy_load_total
cortex_bucket_store_indexheader_lazy_unload_total
cortex_bucket_store_series_blocks_queried_sum
cortex_bucket_store_series_data_fetched_sum
cortex_bucket_store_series_data_touched_sum
cortex_bucket_store_series_get_all_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_bucket_store_series_get_all_duration_seconds_count
cortex_bucket_store_series_get_all_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_bucket_store_series_hash_cache_hits_total
cortex_bucket_store_series_hash_cache_requests_total
cortex_bucket_store_series_merge_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_bucket_store_series_merge_duration_seconds_count
cortex_bucket_store_series_merge_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_bucket_store_series_result_series_count
cortex_bucket_store_series_result_series_sum
cortex_bucket_stores_gate_queries_in_flight
cortex_build_info
cortex_cache_fetched_keys
cortex_cache_hits
cortex_cache_memory_hits_total
cortex_cache_memory_requests_total
cortex_cache_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_cache_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_cache_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_compactor_block_cleanup_failures_total
cortex_compactor_blocks_cleaned_total
cortex_compactor_blocks_marked_for_deletion_total
cortex_compactor_last_successful_run_timestamp_seconds
cortex_compactor_meta_sync_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_compactor_meta_sync_duration_seconds_count
cortex_compactor_meta_sync_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_compactor_meta_sync_failures_total
cortex_compactor_meta_syncs_total
cortex_compactor_runs_completed_total
cortex_compactor_runs_failed_total
cortex_compactor_runs_started_total
cortex_compactor_tenants_discovered
cortex_compactor_tenants_processing_failed
cortex_compactor_tenants_processing_succeeded
cortex_compactor_tenants_skipped
cortex_config_hash
cortex_discarded_exemplars_total
cortex_discarded_requests_total
cortex_discarded_samples_total
cortex_distributor_deduped_samples_total
cortex_distributor_exemplars_in_total
cortex_distributor_latest_seen_sample_timestamp_seconds
cortex_distributor_non_ha_samples_received_total
cortex_distributor_received_exemplars_total
cortex_distributor_received_requests_total
cortex_distributor_received_samples_total
cortex_distributor_replication_factor
cortex_distributor_requests_in_total
cortex_distributor_samples_in_total
cortex_frontend_query_range_duration_seconds_count
cortex_frontend_query_result_cache_attempted_total
cortex_frontend_query_result_cache_skipped_total
cortex_frontend_query_sharding_rewrites_attempted_total
cortex_frontend_query_sharding_rewrites_succeeded_total
cortex_frontend_sharded_queries_per_query_bucket
cortex_frontend_sharded_queries_per_query_count
cortex_frontend_sharded_queries_per_query_sum
cortex_frontend_split_queries_total
cortex_inflight_requests
cortex_ingester_active_series
cortex_ingester_active_series_custom_tracker
cortex_ingester_client_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_ingester_client_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_ingester_client_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_ingester_ingested_exemplars_total
cortex_ingester_ingested_samples_total
cortex_ingester_memory_series
cortex_ingester_memory_series_created_total
cortex_ingester_memory_series_removed_total
cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_bucket
cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_count
cortex_ingester_queried_exemplars_sum
cortex_ingester_queried_samples_bucket
cortex_ingester_queried_samples_count
cortex_ingester_queried_samples_sum
cortex_ingester_queried_series_bucket
cortex_ingester_queried_series_count
cortex_ingester_queried_series_sum
cortex_ingester_shipper_upload_failures_total
cortex_ingester_shipper_uploads_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_checkpoint_creations_failed_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_checkpoint_creations_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_ingester_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_count
cortex_ingester_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_ingester_tsdb_compactions_failed_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_compactions_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_exemplar_exemplars_appended_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_exemplar_exemplars_in_storage
cortex_ingester_tsdb_exemplar_last_exemplars_timestamp_seconds
cortex_ingester_tsdb_exemplar_series_with_exemplars_in_storage
cortex_ingester_tsdb_mmap_chunk_corruptions_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_storage_blocks_bytes
cortex_ingester_tsdb_symbol_table_size_bytes
cortex_ingester_tsdb_wal_corruptions_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_wal_truncate_duration_seconds_count
cortex_ingester_tsdb_wal_truncate_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_ingester_tsdb_wal_truncations_failed_total
cortex_ingester_tsdb_wal_truncations_total
cortex_kv_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_kv_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_kv_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_limits_defaults
cortex_limits_overrides
cortex_memcache_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_memcache_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_memcache_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_prometheus_notifications_dropped_total
cortex_prometheus_notifications_errors_total
cortex_prometheus_notifications_queue_capacity
cortex_prometheus_notifications_queue_length
cortex_prometheus_notifications_sent_total
cortex_prometheus_rule_evaluation_duration_seconds_count
cortex_prometheus_rule_evaluation_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_prometheus_rule_evaluation_failures_total
cortex_prometheus_rule_evaluations_total
cortex_prometheus_rule_group_duration_seconds_count
cortex_prometheus_rule_group_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_prometheus_rule_group_iterations_missed_total
cortex_prometheus_rule_group_rules
cortex_querier_blocks_consistency_checks_failed_total
cortex_querier_blocks_consistency_checks_total
cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_querier_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_querier_storegateway_instances_hit_per_query_bucket
cortex_querier_storegateway_instances_hit_per_query_count
cortex_querier_storegateway_instances_hit_per_query_sum
cortex_querier_storegateway_refetches_per_query_bucket
cortex_querier_storegateway_refetches_per_query_count
cortex_querier_storegateway_refetches_per_query_sum
cortex_query_frontend_queue_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_query_frontend_queue_duration_seconds_count
cortex_query_frontend_queue_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_query_frontend_queue_length
cortex_query_frontend_retries_bucket
cortex_query_frontend_retries_count
cortex_query_frontend_retries_sum
cortex_query_scheduler_queue_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_query_scheduler_queue_duration_seconds_count
cortex_query_scheduler_queue_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_query_scheduler_queue_length
cortex_request_duration_seconds_bucket
cortex_request_duration_seconds_count
cortex_request_duration_seconds_sum
cortex_ruler_managers_total
cortex_runtime_config_hash
cortex_tcp_connections
cortex_tcp_connections_limit
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes
kube_deployment_spec_replicas
kube_deployment_status_replicas_unavailable
kube_deployment_status_replicas_updated
kube_persistentvolumeclaim_labels
kube_pod_container_info
kube_pod_container_resource_requests
kube_pod_container_resource_requests_cpu_cores
kube_pod_container_resource_requests_memory_bytes
kube_statefulset_replicas
kube_statefulset_status_replicas_current
kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready
kube_statefulset_status_replicas_updated
kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes
kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes
memcached_limit_bytes
node_disk_read_bytes_total
node_disk_written_bytes_total
node_namespace_pod_container:container_cpu_usage_seconds_total:sum_irate
prometheus_engine_query_duration_seconds
prometheus_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_bucket
prometheus_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_count
prometheus_tsdb_compaction_duration_seconds_sum
prometheus_tsdb_compactions_total
thanos_cache_memcached_hits_total
thanos_cache_memcached_requests_total
thanos_memcached_operation_duration_seconds_bucket
thanos_memcached_operation_duration_seconds_count
thanos_memcached_operation_duration_seconds_sum
thanos_memcached_operations_total
thanos_objstore_bucket_operation_duration_seconds_bucket
thanos_objstore_bucket_operation_duration_seconds_count
thanos_objstore_bucket_operation_duration_seconds_sum
thanos_objstore_bucket_operation_failures_total
thanos_objstore_bucket_operations_total
thanos_store_index_cache_hits_total
thanos_store_index_cache_requests_total

Cost

By connecting your Self-hosted Grafana Mimir instance to Grafana Cloud you might incur charges. To view information on the number of active series that your Grafana Cloud account uses for metrics included in each Cloud tier, see Active series and dpm usage and Cloud tier pricing.