Using Grafana Mimir

Grafana Labs’ Mimir project is a relative newcomer to the remote storage Prometheus ecosystem. Announced in 2022, Mimir is the spiritual successor to the popular Cortex project, which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-sponsored project (as with Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes, and many more). It aims to be the most scalable and performant option available for time series storage.

Important note

Is Cortex dead? Cortex is still under active development and is used extensively by numerous companies. If Mimir intrigues you, but its AGPLv3 license is off-putting, try out Cortex! It’ll still be a mostly similar experience and architecture.

Note that Mimir does not mention being the most efficient in its goals. If you approach Mimir thinking that you are going to see the same massive gains in memory and storage efficiency as VictoriaMetrics, you will be disappointed. However, you still can expect its storage efficiency to be about as good...