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Send metric data to Mimir
To send metric data to Mimir:
- Configure your data source to write to Mimir:
- If you are using Prometheus, see Configure Prometheus to write to Mimir.
- If you are using the OpenTelemetry Collector, see Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to write metrics into Mimir
- Configure Grafana Agent to write to Mimir.
- Upload Prometheus TSDB blocks to Grafana Mimir by using the
backfill
command; see Backfill.
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