What is Grafana Mimir? with maintainer Marco Pracucci (k6 Office Hours #53)

Maintainer Marco Pracucci talks about the new Grafana project, Mimir, a next-generation time-series database for Prometheus. He joins Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh to talk about what Mimir is, why it was needed, and how he helped scale it using k6.
RESOURCES:
Grafana Mimir repo: github.com/grafana/mimir
How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series: grafana.com/blog/2022/04/08/h...
Grafana Mimir - Maintainers tell all: grafana.com/blog/2022/05/03/g...
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Contact Marco:
Twitter: / pracucci
Site: pracucci.com/
Contact Nicole:
Twitter: / n_vanderhoeven
Site: nicolevanderhoeven.com
Contact Paul:
Twitter: / javaducky
Site: javaducky.com/
Learn more about k6:
Website: k6.io
Repo: github.com/k6io/k6

[@gaytriparmar-fw5sv]

I like your sense of humor Paul.dirt out ..LOL

[@wowdoge8973]

Hi, why is qps for my ingesters so much higher than qps for distributors? Like 250x as much

[@k6io]

Hi! Sorry, just going through some older comments we appear to have missed the first time around - better late than never, I hope! If you're using k6 to generate that load, your targets also have an impact on how many requests are sent. If one target (your ingesters for example) is much more performant and responsive, it'll probably be able to handle more load than something that is not as performant/responsive (like your distributors). - Nicole