From 9cb8cd3a086ae5bcfeabbd05eea0e194a30fc7ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "grafana-delivery-bot[bot]" <132647405+grafana-delivery-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:47:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [release-12.0.2] Docs: Document `remote_cache` is only used if a remote database is used (#106791) Docs: Document `remote_cache` is only used if a remote database is used (#104779) * Document `remote_cache` is only used if a remote database is used * Update _index.md --------- (cherry picked from commit 19a65a4865f37acf879f476540f41915b2f93441) Co-authored-by: Mathias Petermann Co-authored-by: Jacob Valdez --- docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md b/docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md index 7092923ef28..d342d4a70b6 100644 --- a/docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/_index.md @@ -479,7 +479,11 @@ Set to `true` to add metrics and tracing for database queries. The default value ### `[remote_cache]` -Caches authentication details and session information in the configured database, Redis or Memcached. This setting does not configure [Query Caching in Grafana Enterprise](../../administration/data-source-management/#query-and-resource-caching). +Caches authentication tokens and other temporary authentication-related data in the configured database, Redis, or Memcached. This setting doesn't configure [Query Caching in Grafana Enterprise](../../administration/data-source-management/#query-and-resource-caching). + +{{< admonition type="note" >}} +This setting doesn't control user session storage. User sessions are _always_ stored in the main database configured in `[database]` regardless of your `[remote_cache]` settings. +{{< /admonition >}} #### `type`