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Configure Grafana Mimir
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Tune your Grafana Mimir configuration to suit your specific environment.
Note
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.
Get started with your configuration
Review the fundamentals of configuring Grafana Mimir.
- About Grafana Mimir configurations
- Grafana Mimir configuration parameters
- About Grafana Mimir runtime configuration
- About Grafana Mimir versioning
Multi-tenancy and security
Set up secure multi-tenant environments.
- About Grafana Mimir tenant IDs
- Configure Grafana Mimir high-availability deduplication
- About Grafana Mimir anonymous usage statistics reporting
Storage and data management
Configure how Grafana Mimir stores and manages your data.
- Configure Grafana Mimir object storage backend
- Configure Grafana Mimir metrics storage retention
- Configure TSDB block upload
- Configure out-of-order samples ingestion
Ingestion and data sources
Configure how data is ingested into Grafana Mimir.
- Configure native histograms
- Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to write metrics into Mimir
- Configure the Grafana Mimir Kafka backend
Performance and scaling
Manage sharding, distribution, resource management, and limits.
- Configure Grafana Mimir shuffle sharding
- Migrate ingesters to spread-minimizing tokens
- Configure Grafana Mimir hash rings
- About Grafana Mimir reactive limiters
- About Grafana Mimir ingester circuit breakers
- Configure resource utilization based ingester read path limiting
- Configure custom active series trackers
Query management
Manage and optimize query behavior.
High availability and clustering
Configure Grafana Mimir for production resilience.
- Configure Grafana Mimir zone-aware replication
- Mirror requests to a second Grafana Mimir cluster
- About Grafana Mimir DNS service discovery
Observability and troubleshooting
Monitor and debug your Grafana Mimir deployment.