JesseBot<p>So, I've been using Thanos to receive and store my prometheus metrics long term in a self hosted S3 bucket. Thanos also acts as a datasource for my dashboards in Grafana, and provides a Ruler, which evaluates alerting rulers and forwards them to my alertmanager. It's ok. It's certainly got it's downsides, which I can go into later, but I've thinking... what about Mimir?</p><p>How do you all feel about Grafana's Mimir (<a href="https://github.com/grafana/mimir" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">source on GitHub</a>)? It's AGPL and seems to literally be a replacement of Thanos, which is Apache 2.0.</p><p>Thanos description from their <a href="https://thanos.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.</p></blockquote><p>Mimir description from their <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/?pg=oss-mimir&plcmt=resources" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a>:</p><blockquote><p>...open source software project that provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.</p></blockquote><p>Both with work with alloy and prometheus alike. Both require you to configure initially confusing hashrings and replication parameters. Both have a bunch of large companies adopting them, so... now I feel conflicted. Should I try mimir? Poll in reply.</p><p><a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/thanos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thanos</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/alloy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alloy</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grafana</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/observability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>observability</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/monitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monitoring</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kubernetes</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/k8s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>k8s</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://social.smallhack.org/tags/sre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sre</span></a></p>