Alternatives to Grafana Mimir
Store Prometheus-compatible metrics over long periods at distributed scale. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Grafana Mimir
Store Prometheus-compatible metrics over long periods at distributed scale.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Grafana Mimir.
VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database.
VictoriaMetrics supports Prometheus-compatible workflows with single-node and clustered deployments, under Apache-2.0 with advanced enterprise capabilities licensed separately.
M3DB
Open-source distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics at scale.
M3DB is a Prometheus-compatible distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics, with operational overhead geared toward very large deployments.
InfluxDB
Store time-stamped measurements for monitoring and real-time applications.
InfluxDB is a time-series database with self-hosted and managed editions under Apache-2.0, though features differ significantly between its product generations.
GreptimeDB
Store observability data in a database queried through SQL and PromQL.
GreptimeDB stores metrics and related telemetry queried through SQL and PromQL, with object-storage-oriented deployments, under Apache-2.0 instead of AGPL-3.0.
TimescaleDB
PostgreSQL extension that turns Postgres into a scalable time-series database.
TimescaleDB extends PostgreSQL for time-series data, so teams keep standard Postgres tooling, but advanced clustering and cloud features sit behind a paid offering.
QuestDB
Query time-series data with a database focused on SQL and high-rate ingestion.
QuestDB queries time-series data with SQL and high-rate ingestion rather than Prometheus-style storage, with managed and enterprise capabilities under separate terms.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database widely used as a backend for logs, traces and metrics.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine.
Quickwit
Search logs and other large datasets using an engine built around object storage.
