From 8e86d52c23d39588f7186b5bbfd9c34da37f2398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:00:33 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs/FAQ.md: add a question on differences between Grafana
 Mimir and VictoriaMetrics

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 * QuestDB [supports a smaller range of popular data ingestion protocols](https://questdb.io/docs/develop/insert-data) compared to VictoriaMetrics (compare to [the list of supported data ingestion protocols for VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-time-series-data)).
 * [VictoriaMetrics supports backfilling (e.g. storing historical data) out of the box](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#backfilling), while QuestDB provides [very limited support for backfilling](https://questdb.io/blog/2021/05/10/questdb-release-6-0-tsbs-benchmark#the-problem-with-out-of-order-data).
 
+## What is the difference between VictoriaMetrics and [Grafana Mimir](https://github.com/grafana/mimir)?
+
+Grafana Mimir is a [Cortex](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex) fork, so it has the same differences
+as Cortex. See [what is the difference between VictoriaMetrics and Cortex](#what-is-the-difference-between-victoriametrics-and-cortex).
+
 ## What is the difference between VictoriaMetrics and [Cortex](https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex)?
 
 VictoriaMetrics is similar to Cortex in the following aspects: