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    grafana/mimir

    #372 this week

    Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

    monitoring
    observability
    metrics
    opentelemetry
    otlp
    prometheus
    tsdb
    Go
    AGPL-3.0
    5.3K stars
    854 forks
    5.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 15, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #6 among Monitoring repositories tracked this week, and #6 over the last 30 days; #372 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 13%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 388 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant long-term storage for Prometheus metrics.
    • Enables massive scalability and global querying across multiple Prometheus instances with cost-effective object storage.
    • Use for consolidating metrics from multiple Prometheus servers into a single scalable storage backend.
    • Use for building a multi-tenant observability platform that isolates data and queries per team or business unit.
    • Use for ensuring high availability and zero downtime during upgrades or maintenance of metric storage infrastructure.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    • AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    For information about how to deploy Grafana Mimir, refer to Deploy Grafana Mimir.

    Excerpt from the grafana/mimir README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Forks

    854+50

    Open issues

    898+101

    Compared with peers in Monitoring

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth

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    RepositoryStars+7dHealthLast release
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    teslamate-org/teslamate9.2K+07523 days ago
    aceberg/WatchYourLAN7.6K+010397 days ago
    grafana/mimir5.3K+0757 days ago
    Category median11.9K+075—

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