# mimir

A skill that walks the agent through running Grafana Mimir for long-term Prometheus and OTLP metrics, multi-tenancy included.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4700 installs · ★ 290
- Author: grafana
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/grafana/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-lgtm/mimir/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/mimir

## What it does

The skill lays out two paths. First a local Mimir in Docker: a ready `demo.yaml` with the monolithic `all` target, filesystem block storage and multitenancy off, plus checks against `/ready`, `/api/v1/labels` and Mimir's own metrics endpoint.

Then ingestion. Prometheus and Grafana Alloy both push to `http://localhost:9009/api/v1/push`, and with multitenancy on every request carries an `X-Scope-OrgID` header. For Kubernetes there is the `mimir-distributed` Helm chart at version 6.0.6, followed by a pod and gateway check. Two reference files sit alongside the main skill: `references/storage.md` for storage backends and `references/architecture.md` for components, rings and limits.

Know this upfront: production wants an object-storage bucket, filesystem is a dev-only option. With multitenancy enabled the tenant header is mandatory on writes and reads, so a missing `X-Scope-OrgID` leaves you with silence instead of data. Docker is enough for the quick start; the Helm route also needs a Kubernetes cluster and `kubectl`.

## Requirements
- Works with: Grafana, Azure, Kubernetes

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill mimir -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/mimir/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/mimir/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill mimir -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/mimir/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill mimir -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/mimir/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install grafana/skills mimir
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/mimir/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill mimir -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/grafana/skills --path skills/grafana-lgtm/mimir
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/mimir/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill mimir -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/grafana/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-lgtm/mimir/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- bring up Mimir locally in Docker and confirm readiness
- point Prometheus remote_write at Mimir
- enable multitenancy and pass `X-Scope-OrgID` per tenant
- deploy the `mimir-distributed` Helm chart to Kubernetes
- trace a `429 Too Many Requests` response on push

## Example prompts
- Start Mimir locally from `demo.yaml` and check that `/ready` responds
- Configure remote_write from Prometheus into Mimir for the tenant1 tenant
- Deploy Mimir to Kubernetes with the `mimir-distributed` chart and a `values.yaml`

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: mimir
license: Apache-2.0
description: Stand up Grafana Mimir for horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term Prometheus + OTLP metrics storage. Covers monolithic / read-write / microservices deployment, S3 / GCS / Azure / filesystem block storage, Prometheus `remote_write` and OTLP ingestion, multi-tenancy with `X-Scope-OrgID`, ingester replication factor, compactor retention, and per-tenant limits. Use when running Mimir locally or on Kubernetes (Helm `mimir-distributed`), scaling Prometheus past a single node, picking ingest / query / backend split, configuring tenants and ingestion rate, debugging `/ready` 503s or `429 Too Many Requests`, or pointing Grafana at a Mimir datasource — even when the user says "I need long-term Prometheus storage", "scale Prometheus", "multi-tenant metrics backend", "Cortex replacement", "remote_write target", or "store 10M active series" without naming Mimir.
---

# Grafana Mimir

> **Docs**: https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/

Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus + OpenTelemetry metrics.

## Prerequisites

- Docker (for quick start) or a Kubernetes cluster (for Helm)
- An object-storage bucket for production (S3/GCS/Azure) — filesystem only for dev
- Prometheus or Alloy able to remote_write to the Mimir push endpoint

## Common Workflows

### 1. Stand up monolithic Mimir locally

```yaml
# demo.yaml
target: all
multitenancy_enabled: false

blocks_storage:
  backend: filesystem
  bucket_store:
    sync_dir: /tmp/mimir/tsdb-sync
  filesystem:
    dir: /tmp/mimir/data/tsdb
  tsdb:
    dir: /tmp/mimir/tsdb

compactor:
  data_dir: /tmp/mimir/compactor
  sharding_ring:
    kvstore: { store: memberlist }

distributor:
  ring:
    instance_addr: 127.0.0.1
    kvstore: { store: memberlist }

ingester:
  ring:
    instance_addr: 127.0.0.1
    kvstore: { store: memberlist }
    replication_factor: 1

server:
  http_listen_port: 9009
  grpc_listen_port: 9095
  log_level: error
```

```bash
# 1. Run it
docker run --rm -p 9009:9009 -v $(pwd)/demo.yaml:/etc/mimir/demo.yaml \
  grafana/mimir:latest --config.file=/etc/mimir/demo.yaml

# 2. Verify readiness (expect HTTP 200, body: "ready")
curl -sf http://localhost:9009/ready

# 3. Verify it's serving the API
curl -s http://localhost:9009/api/v1/labels | jq '.status'   # → "success"

# 4. Verify self-metrics scrape
curl -s http://localhost:9009/metrics | grep -E '^mimir_(distributor|ingester)_' | head
```

### 2. Send metrics — Prometheus remote_write

```yaml
remote_write:
  - url: http://localhost:9009/api/v1/push
    headers:
      X-Scope-OrgID: tenant1   # required when multitenancy_enabled: true
```

```bash
# Verify samples are landing
curl -s -H 'X-Scope-OrgID: tenant1' \
  'http://localhost:9009/api/v1/query?query=up' | jq '.data.result | length'
````
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