Menu
This is documentation for the next version of Mimir. For the latest stable release, go to the latest version.
Grafana Mimir
Grafana Mimir is an open source software project that provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.
Overview
Grafana Mimir enables users to ingest Prometheus or OpenTelemetry metrics, run queries, create new data through the use of recording rules, and set up alerting rules across multiple tenants to leverage tenant federation. Once deployed, the best-practice dashboards, alerts, and runbooks packaged with Grafana Mimir make it easy to monitor the health of the system.
Explore
Get started
Get started quickly with Grafana Mimir’s extensive documentation, tutorials, and deployment tooling. Use the monolithic mode to get up and running with just one binary and no added dependencies.
Set up and configure
Set up Grafana Mimir with Helm, Puppet, or Jsonnet and Tanka. Then, Configure Grafana Mimir through a YAML-based configuration file or CLI flags.
Send metric data
Configure your data sources to write data to Grafana Mimir. These include such sources as Prometheus, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and Grafana Agent.
Manage
Whether you’re an operator or user, you have some decisions to make and actions to take. Read about exemplars, tools, runbooks, and more to help you take the right decisions and actions for your operation.
Query metric labels
Query metric data from Grafana Mimir through the use of Grafana or the Grafana Mimir HTTP API. Learn how to query Prometheus data from within Mimir.
Visualize data
Query, visualize, and explore your metrics using Grafana, an open platform for metrics visualization. It supports multiple data stores including Prometheus. You can also visualize native histograms through Grafana Mimir since they are a Prometheus data type.
Was this page helpful?
Related resources from Grafana Labs
Intro to metrics with Grafana: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, and beyond
In this webinar, we’ll go over challenges when scaling metrics systems, with a particular focus on Prometheus and Grafana Mimir.
Scaling and securing your Prometheus metrics in Grafana Cloud
In this webinar, we’ll go over Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM), a simple and scalable Prometheus service that is seamless to use, and simple to maintain
Less is more: How Grafana Mimir queries run faster and more cost efficiently with fewer indexes
By avoiding inverted index lookups in the Prometheus TSDB, Mimir's memory usage was reduced by up to 64%.