From aeb1222870415defd558e1ffb8b07040bb8073db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Taylor Cole Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:18:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: adds deprecation notice for redis caching --- .../mimir-distributed/configure/configure-redis-cache.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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`: