Configure native histograms
To enable support for ingesting Prometheus native histograms over the remote write API endpoint, set the configuration parameter native_histograms_ingestion_enabled
to true.
To enable support for querying native histograms together with Grafana Mimir query sharding, set the configuration parameter query_result_response_format
to protobuf
.
Example values file:
mimir:
structuredConfig:
frontend:
query_result_response_format: protobuf
limits:
native_histograms_ingestion_enabled: true
Note
Native histograms is an experimental feature of Grafana Mimir.
To configure bucket limits for native histograms, refer to Configure native histograms.
To configure Grafana Agent or Prometheus to write native histograms to Grafana Mimir, refer to Send native histograms to Mimir.
To visualize native histograms in Mimir, refer to Visualize native histograms.