Grafana Mimir
Scalable long-term storage for Prometheus metrics
Grafana Mimir is an open-source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant time series database for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. It is designed to store and query hundreds of millions of active series.
Key features
- Massive cardinality support
- Multi-tenant by design
- Fast query engine
- Object storage backend
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Proven at billion-series scale
- Easier to operate than Cortex
Trade-offs
- Resource intensive
- Complex for small homelabs
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