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Grafana Mimir operator and user guide
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This guide describes the decisions Grafana Mimir operators and users make and the actions they perform to deploy, configure, and maintain Grafana Mimir.
The intended audience for this guide includes:
- Operators who are responsible for deploying and configuring Grafana Mimir.
- Users who are responsible for viewing Grafana Mimir dashboards to troubleshoot production environment issues.
This guide contains the following sections:
- Getting started with Grafana Mimir
- Deploying Grafana Mimir on Kubernetes
- Grafana Mimir architecture
- Configuring Grafana Mimir
- Using exemplars with Grafana Mimir
- Monitoring Grafana Mimir
- Securing Grafana Mimir
- Running Grafana Mimir in production
- Grafana Mimir tools
- Reference: Grafana Mimir glossary
- Reference: Grafana Mimir HTTP API
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