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Documentation Grafana Mimir Send data Native histograms

Send native histograms to Mimir

Prometheus native histograms are a data type in the Prometheus ecosystem that enable the following use cases:

1. Produce, store, and query a high-resolution histogram of observations. Use native histograms with exponential buckets in your instrumentation for this purpose.
2. Store classic histograms in a more resilient and cost effective way, without changes to instrumentation. Use native histograms with custom buckets for this purpose.

The following topics cover each use case:

• Native histograms standard buckets
• Native histograms with custom buckets