VICTORIAMETRICS

High-perf Prometheus-compatible Go TSDB.

Definition

VictoriaMetrics offers Single-node version (open-source Apache 2.0) and Cluster version. MetricsQL (PromQL super-set). vmagent (light Prometheus exporter), vmalert (alerting), vmctl (migration). 10x better compression vs Prometheus TSDB. Direct competitor to Thanos, Cortex, Mimir.

Origin

Created by Aliaksandr Valialkin (ex-Cloudflare) May 2018 ; v1.0 released April 2020.

Example in context

A company migrates from 10 Prometheus → 1 VictoriaMetrics single-node ingesting 2M samples/sec, 80% cost reduction.

Related terms

• Mimir — direct competitor.