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About Grafana Mimir tenant IDs
Within a Grafana Mimir cluster, the tenant ID is the unique identifier of a tenant. For information about how Grafana Mimir components use tenant IDs, refer to Authentication and authorization.
Restrictions
Tenant IDs must be less-than or equal-to 150 bytes or characters in length and can only include the following supported characters:
- Alphanumeric characters
0-9a-zA-Z
- Special characters
- Exclamation point (
!) - Hyphen (
-) - Underscore (
_) - Single period (
.) - Asterisk (
*) - Single quote (
') - Open parenthesis (
() - Close parenthesis (
))
- Exclamation point (
Note
For security reasons,.and..aren’t valid tenant IDs.
Note
__mimir_clusterisn’t a valid tenant ID because Mimir uses the name internally.
All other characters, including slashes and whitespace, aren’t supported.
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