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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:

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

Note

Native histograms are an experimental feature of Grafana Mimir.

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.