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Grafana Mimir components

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

  • Compactor
  • Distributor
  • Ingester
  • Querier
  • Query-frontend
  • Query-scheduler
  • Store-gateway
  • (Optional) Alertmanager
  • (Optional) Overrides-exporter
  • (Optional) Ruler

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          • (Optional) Alertmanager
          • (Optional) Overrides-exporter
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