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title: "Grafana Mimir advanced architecture | Grafana Mimir documentation"
description: "Learn about the Grafana Mimir architecture components and services."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Grafana Mimir advanced architecture

The following topics include in-depth overviews of the Grafana Mimir architecture.

- [Deployment modes](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/deployment-modes/)
- [Network ports](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/ports/)
- [Components](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/)
- [Binary index-header](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/binary-index-header/)
- [Bucket index](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/bucket-index/)
- [Hash rings](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/hash-ring/)
- [Key-value store](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/key-value-store/)
- [Memberlist and gossip protocol](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/memberlist-and-the-gossip-protocol/)
- [Query sharding](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/query-sharding/)
- [Mimir query engine](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/mimir-query-engine/)