mimir

Store Prometheus metrics long-term by configuring Prometheus remote_write to send metrics to the Mimir push endpoint. Mimir provides scalable long-term metrics storage and supports OpenTelemetry metric ingestion for retention beyond a single Prometheus server.

Yes, Grafana Mimir supports multi-tenant isolation using the X-Scope-OrgID header. This tenant isolation allows you to safely serve multiple teams or environments from a single scalable long-term metrics backend.

Yes, you can query long-term metrics using PromQL with Grafana Mimir. It provides PromQL read APIs including /api/v1/query and /api/v1/query_range, enabling instant and range queries alongside compaction and rule evaluation.

Scale Prometheus remote_write for high availability by deploying Grafana Mimir as your long-term metrics backend. Mimir supports horizontal scaling across its components in either monolithic or distributed deployment modes to handle production observability setups.

Yes, Grafana Mimir works with OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion. It satisfies functional requirements for both Prometheus remote_write and OTLP ingestion, allowing you to reliably store and query time-series metrics from multiple sources.

You need a dedicated long-term metrics backend like Mimir when your retention requirements exceed a single Prometheus server's capacity. Mimir provides scalable storage, compaction, retention management, and multi-tenant isolation for production observability setups.