Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
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Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#2There isn't a link to the project on the page (that I could find) so it almost looked like it's not open source. But here it is: https://github.com/grafana/mimir.
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#3Presumably AGPLv3 is why Grafana would rather develop this than Cortex?
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#4There isn't a link to the project on the page (that I could find) so it almost looked like it's not open source. But here it is: https://github.com/grafana/mimir .
You have to find the "Download" button and click it, it's very non-obvious :< The entire page seems to be designed to funnel you into signing up for their paid service, which makes sense, but still doesn't feel great...
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#5How does this stack up with https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos, which I've used to pretty good success.
The only criticism I have of Thanos though was the amount of moving pieces to maintain.
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#6Presumably AGPLv3 is why Grafana would rather develop this than Cortex?
Hi. I'm Marco, I work at Grafana Labs and I'm a Grafana Mimir maintainer. We just published a couple of blog posts about the project, including more details on your question: https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/30/announcing-grafana-mimir... and https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/30/qa-with-our-ceo-about-gr...
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#7There isn't a link to the project on the page (that I could find) so it almost looked like it's not open source. But here it is: https://github.com/grafana/mimir .
You have to find the "Download" button and click it, it's very non-obvious :< The entire page seems to be designed to funnel you into signing up for their paid service, which makes sense, but still doesn't feel great...
The first CTA button on the page "Tutorial" links to a tutorial where the first step is to run the project with Docker. Doesn't really feel like an overly forced funnel to their paid service.
Re: Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
#8Grafana Labs needs to make a convincing comparison chart of some kind between Mimir, Thanos, and Cortex. Thanos and Cortex are both mature projects and are both CNCF Incubating projects. Why would anyone switch to a new prometheus long-term storage solution from those?
*EDIT*: I see from another reply there is a basic comparison to Cortex here: https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/30/announcing-grafana-mimir... To the Mimir folks, I'd love to see something similar Mimir v. Thanos.
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#9It's hard to tell exactly how this works but judging from the tutorial's docker-compose.yml [0] it looks like this runs as a separate API next to Prometheus and you tell Prometheus to write [1] to Mimir. I'm unclear how reads work from it or maybe there is no read?
Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding.
[0] https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/main/docs/sources/tuto...
[1] https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/main/docs/sources/tuto...
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#10Looks like an interesting alternative to Clickhouse with s3 backend...