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Configure Grafana Mimir
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Grafana Mimir’s flexibility is achieved through configuration.
- About configurations
- About tenant IDs
- About DNS service discovery
- About anonymous usage statistics reporting
- About IP address logging of a reverse proxy
- About runtime configuration
- About versioning
- Configure hash rings
- Configure object storage
- Configure high-availability deduplication
- Configure metrics storage retention
- Configure high-availability deduplication with Consul
- Configure shuffle sharding
- Configure the query-frontend to work with Prometheus
- Configure custom active series trackers
- Configure tracing
- Configure zone-aware replication
- Configure out-of-order samples ingestion
- Configure TSDB block upload
- Mirror requests to a second cluster
- Configuration parameters
- Configure OTel Collector
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