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title: "Grafana Mimir advanced architecture | Grafana Enterprise Metrics documentation"
description: "Learn about the Grafana Mimir architecture components and services."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Grafana Mimir advanced architecture

The following topics include in-depth overviews of the Grafana Mimir architecture.

- [Deployment modes](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/deployment-modes/)
- [Components](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/components/)
- [Binary index-header](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/binary-index-header/)
- [Bucket index](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/bucket-index/)
- [Hash rings](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/hash-ring/)
- [Key-value store](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/key-value-store/)
- [Memberlist and gossip protocol](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/memberlist-and-the-gossip-protocol/)
- [Query sharding](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/query-sharding/)
- [Mimir query engine](https://grafana.com/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.16.x/reference/mimir-arch/mimir-query-engine/)