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title: "Grafana Mimir components | Grafana Mimir documentation"
description: "Grafana Mimir includes a set of components that interact to form a cluster."
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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 components

Grafana Mimir includes a set of components that interact to form a cluster.

- [Compactor](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/compactor/)
- [Distributor](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/distributor/)
- [Ingester](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/ingester/)
- [Querier](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/querier/)
- [Query-frontend](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/query-frontend/)
- [Query-scheduler](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/query-scheduler/)
- [Store-gateway](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/store-gateway/)
- [(Optional) Alertmanager](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/alertmanager/)
- [(Optional) Overrides-exporter](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/overrides-exporter/)
- [(Optional) Ruler](/docs/mimir/latest/references/architecture/components/ruler/)