%% date:: [[2022-09-20]] parent:: [[Grafana Labs]], [[Observability]], [[Time-series database|tsdb]] %% # [[Grafana Mimir]] [site](https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/) | [docs](https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/?pg=oss-mimir&plcmt=resources) | [repo](https://github.com/grafana/mimir) Grafana Mimir is a [[Time-series database]] for [[Prometheus]] [[Metrics]] that provides long-term storage with [[Scalability]] in mind. It had its roots in [[Cortex]]. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ej9y3KILV8g" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> *Introducing Grafana Mimir, by Marco Pracucci* [^pracucci] %% [[Grafana Labs (company)]] created Mimir because of issues with [[Cortex]]'s license-- [[Amazon]] in particular could legally use Cortex in their own commercial offerings and be in direct competition to Grafana's products without contributing much to Cortex's development. %% ![[how-does-grafana-mimir-work.png]] [^mimir] ## Features ### Cheap, durable metric storage Mimir uses [[Object storage]] for metrics, which makes storage cheaper and ubiquitous. ### Natively multi-tenant and high availability Mimir is built to be [[Multi-tenant]] and [[Horizontal Scaling|horizontally scalable]], giving it high [[Availability]]. [^mimir]: Grafana Labs. *Grafana Mimir*. Retrieved from https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/. [^pracucci]: Introducing Grafana Mimir. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej9y3KILV8g&list=PLDGkOdUX1UjpBtc0aAA55TvPVUhPFr9p3&index=15