Tag: Mimir

Occam’s Razor posits “Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation is to be preferred.” I believe my high school biology teacher taught the “KISS” method (Keep It Simple, Stupid) to convey a similar principle. As I was trying to get alerts set up in Mimir using the Grafana UI, I came across an issue that…

This post is part of a series on observability in Kubernetes clusters: Part 1 – Collecting Logs with Loki Part 2 – Collecting Metrics with Prometheus Part 3 – Dashboards with Grafana Part 4 – Using Linkerd for Service Observability Part 5 – Using Mimir for long-term metric storage (this post) For anyone who actually…