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CLI for interacting with Grafana Mimir. Version 3.1.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-24.
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overview
Package summary
CLI for interacting with Grafana Mimir
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mimirtool
history
Project history and usage
mimirtool is the operator and tenant CLI shipped from the Grafana Mimir repository. Grafana Mimir itself was announced by Grafana Labs on March 31, 2022 as an open-source time-series database for Prometheus-compatible metrics, built from lessons learned running Grafana Enterprise Metrics and Grafana Cloud Metrics at large scale. The announcement and Grafana's Mimir OSS page describe the project as started at Grafana Labs, AGPLv3-licensed, and aimed at highly scalable, highly available, multi-tenant long-term metric storage.
Project history
Mimirtool exists because running a Mimir or Grafana Cloud Metrics deployment involves more than querying time series. The official Mimirtool docs describe it as a command-line tool for common tasks involving Grafana Mimir or Grafana Cloud Metrics, interacting with user-facing APIs and backend storage. Its commands cover Alertmanager configuration, Prometheus rule validation and upload, remote-read export, metric-usage analysis from Grafana dashboards and rules, object-storage bucket validation, ACL header generation, Cortex-to-Mimir config conversion, TSDB block backfill, and partition-ring operations.
Adoption history
In practice, operators configure the CLI with `MIMIR_ADDRESS`, `MIMIR_API_USER`, `MIMIR_API_KEY`, `MIMIR_TENANT_ID`, and TLS-related flags or environment variables, then use it to automate rule management, migration checks, storage validation, and backfills. Grafana Cloud documentation specifically uses `mimirtool` to upload alert and recording rules to Grafana Cloud Metrics and Alerts.
How it is used
Its package niche is narrow and infrastructure-focused: Homebrew distributes the standalone `mimirtool` executable, while upstream also publishes release binaries from the Grafana Mimir GitHub releases. It is best understood as the administrative companion to Grafana Mimir, not a general observability client.
Sources
- https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mimirtool
- https://github.com/grafana/mimir
- https://grafana.com/blog/announcing-grafana-mimir/
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/set-up/provision-alerting-resources/use-mimirtool/
- https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/
- https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/manage/tools/mimirtool/
- https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mimirtool | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version3.1.2
manager updated2026-06-24
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/grafana/mimir
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/grafana/mimirnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mimirtool |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.1.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mimirtool |
| Homepage | https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/operators-guide/tools/mimirtool/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/grafana/mimir |
| Upstream docs | https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/manage/tools/mimirtool |
| License | AGPL-3.0-only |
| Source archive | https://github.com/grafana/mimir.git |
| Last updated | 2026-06-24T13:21:43Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Build dependencies | go |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mimirtool |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
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source trail
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