MIMIR-GRAFANA

Scalable long-term Prometheus TSDB.

Definition

Mimir architecture: Distributor (write), Ingester (memory + write S3), Querier (distributed PromQL), Store Gateway (read S3), Compactor. Multi-tenancy via X-Scope-OrgID header. Mimir v2.13 (2025). 1 billion samples/sec ingestion in cluster. AWS, GCS, Azure, OpenStack Swift, MinIO storage backends.

Origin

Announced by Grafana Labs March 2022 (fork from Cortex going proprietary).

Example in context

Cloudflare stores 13 years of Prometheus metrics in Mimir for long-term trend analysis.

Related terms

• Prometheus — source TSDB.