Mimir 3.0 Unveiled: Ingest Storage, Query Engine, and a Whole Lot Less Cost

Mimir 3.0 is coming—and it’s faster, more cost effective, and more reliable. Learn how ingest storage and a new streaming query engine make Mimir more scalable and cost-efficient than ever. Get ready for fewer errors and better performance. Chapters: 00:00 – Welcome + Goals of Mimir 3: Reliability, performance, cost 01:20 – Mimir 2 architecture: How writes and reads flow through ingesters 03:00 – Challenges in Mimir 2: Overloaded ingesters and multi-zone fragility 05:03 – Introducing ingest storage: Kafka-powered decoupling of reads/writes 07:20 – Write path reimagined: How Kafka changes durability and latency 09:01 – Read path in Mimir 3: Complete data from one ingester per partition 10:52 – Improved availability: Lower outage risk with fewer ingesters 11:50 – Real-world results: Cost savings from ingest storage 13:07 – New Mimir query engine: Streamed execution = fewer errors 14:30 – Why expensive queries no longer spike memory 15:53 – Flattening memory usage: Less waste, fewer crashes 17:50 – How Mimir 3 streams data vs. Prometheus’ in-memory method 19:39 – Benchmarks: 92% less memory, 38% faster queries 20:24 – Success rate queries and query deduplication 22:35 – Optimization framework + real cluster improvements 23:25 – Final takeaways: 3x less memory, 80% less CPU, full OSS support Related links: Mimir GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/mimir/rele... ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. Sign up: https://grafana.com/get/?src=yt&mdm=s... ❓ Have a question that isn't related to this video? Check out the Official Grafana Community Forums: https://community.grafana.com/?src=yt... ----- 👍 If you found this video useful, be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more helpful Grafana videos. 📱 Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects. X: (  / grafana  ) LinkedIn: (  / grafana-labs  ) Facebook: (  / grafana  ) #Grafana #Observability #Mimir