Marco Pracucci

Makes sense to me. I would allow to change any config option marked as "experimental" only when the "unsafe" flag is enabled, in addition to few others (e.g. replication factor...

> In a similar vein to https://github.com/grafana/mimir/issues/2284 and the current AZ Awareness, I'd like to have the ability to effectively tell Mimir's Distributors to prefer writing to Ingesters that are...

> Currently I'm on Cortex, planning to swap to Mimir in the coming months. But running replication factor of 3, 48 ingesters spread across 3 azs. Got it. I was...

> The goal would be for the distributors to only write to ingester replicas in the same AZ. IE - if distributor-1 is in AZ2, replication factor == 3, then...

> Partial results in the event of an outage are still better than no results. I think this is the main divergence here. So far, Mimir has been designed to...

Thanks @MaxDiOrio for your feedback. I definitely agree with you. Willing to help improving it?

> hi @andrejvanderzee will you finalize this PR ? Seems like it needs a rebase and [changelog](https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/main/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md) entry. @krajorama This PR looks stale. If it's something we want, maybe we...

> The reason we use StatefulSets with compactor is that StatefulSets are configured with a persistent volume claim template and each replica gets its own persistent volume. If we used...

> Having said that and revisiting the k8s storage docs, I notice we could also be using 1.23's [generic ephemeral volumes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/ephemeral-volumes/#generic-ephemeral-volumes) which would allow a pod to mount a dedicated...

> As I understand it Grafana themselves run an authentication proxy layer in front of distributors in their Grafana Cloud setup, which understandably isn't included in this repo. Correct. We...