From 1484f36d40c942dd15a3c3c2348c0cecd2357adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Grot (@grafanabot)" <43478413+grafanabot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:05:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs: adds deprecation notice for redis caching (#9701)
 (#9702)

(cherry picked from commit f7a37ae578cd8a8c29db3079186a20c3d1afd7cd)

Co-authored-by: Taylor C <41653732+tacole02@users.noreply.github.com>
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 .../mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md      | 4 ++++
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diff --git a/docs/sources/helm-charts/mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md b/docs/sources/helm-charts/mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md
index 65ca31b9724..bbc2ac2d548 100644
--- a/docs/sources/helm-charts/mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md
+++ b/docs/sources/helm-charts/mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ description: "Learn how to configure Grafana Mimir to use external Redis as cach
 
 # Configure Redis cache
 
+{{< admonition type="caution" >}}
+Starting with Mimir version 2.14, the experimental support for Redis caching is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. You are encouraged to switch to Memcached.
+{{< /admonition >}}
+
 Besides support for Memcached, Mimir also supports Redis for the chunks-cache, index-cache, results-cache and metadata-cache. To use Redis, deploy Redis instances, disable the built-in Memcached configuration flag in values.yaml of `mimir-distributed` Helm chart, and then configure Mimir to use Redis.
 
 To disable Memcached, remove any `chunks-cache`, `index-cache`, `metadata-cache` and `results-cache` configuration from your Helm `values.yaml` file. Alternatively, explicitly disable each of the Memcached instances by setting `enabled` to `false`: