Configure Grafana Mimir
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Configure Grafana Mimir
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Tune the Grafana Mimir configuration to suit your environment.
- Configurations
- Tenant IDs
- DNS service discovery
- Anonymous usage statistics reporting
- IP address logging of a reverse proxy
- Runtime configuration
- Versioning
- Hash rings
- Object storage
- Kafka
- High-availability deduplication
- Metrics storage retention
- Shuffle sharding
- Query-frontend to work with Prometheus
- Custom active series trackers
- Tracing
- Configure queries to block
- Configure experimental PromQL functions
- Zone-aware replication
- Spread-minimizing tokens
- Out-of-order samples ingestion
- Resource utilization based ingester read path limiting
- TSDB block upload
- Mirror requests to a second cluster
- Configuration parameters
- OpenTelemetry Collector
- Native histograms
- Ingester circuit breakers
- Reactive limiters
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