Grafana Mimir Operator and user guide

Grafana Mimir operator and user guide

You can use Grafana Cloud to avoid installing, maintaining, and scaling your own instance of Grafana Mimir. Create a free account to get started, which includes free forever access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 500VUh k6 testing & more.

This guide describes the decisions Grafana Mimir operators and users make and the actions they perform to deploy, configure, and maintain Grafana Mimir.

The intended audience for this guide includes:

• Operators who are responsible for deploying and configuring Grafana Mimir.
• Users who are responsible for viewing Grafana Mimir dashboards to troubleshoot production environment issues.

This guide contains the following sections:

• Get started
• Deploy on Kubernetes
• Architecture
• Configuration
• Use exemplars
• Monitor Mimir
• Secure
• Run in production
• Run Grafana Mimir in production using the Helm chart
• Tools
• Runbooks