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Configure native histograms

To enable support for ingesting Prometheus native histograms over the [remote write API] endpoint, set the configuration parameter native_histograms_ingestion_enabled to true.

To enable support for querying native histograms together with [Grafana Mimir query sharding], set the configuration parameter query_result_response_format to protobuf.

Example values file:

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mimir:
  structuredConfig:
    frontend:
      query_result_response_format: protobuf
    limits:
      native_histograms_ingestion_enabled: true

To configure bucket limits for native histograms, refer to [Configure native histograms].

To configure Grafana Agent or Prometheus to write native histograms to Grafana Mimir, refer to [Send native histograms to Mimir].

To visualize native histograms in Mimir, refer to [Visualize native histograms].