Prometheus vs. VictoriaMetrics Community

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Prometheus
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
VictoriaMetrics Community
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance monitoring solution and time series databaseN/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—Enterprise support prices are negotiated individually with every customer. The price depends on many factors such as: * Costs for the existing monitoring solution * The amounts of collected data and the workload specifics (unique time series, churn rate, ingestion rate, query types, query rate, etc.) * The amounts of compute resources needed for the monitoring solution * Additional enterprise features * SLA tier Contact us at info@victoriametrics.com for more details on the pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Prometheus

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VictoriaMetrics Community
Chose VictoriaMetrics Community
Victoria metrics is cheaper and more efficient than Prometheus, in terms of data ingestions, hardware resources, and Storage mechanism, also supports Prometheus extensions, and query language by default. Although Prometheus has a larger community and support, because of the …
Chose VictoriaMetrics Community
Prometheus only support PromQL and it is very complex with different exporter required for different requirement like Windowsexporter,linixexporter,sqlexporter etc but VictoriaMetrics is very simple comapred to it. VictoriaMetrics support both PromQL and MetricQL and can be …
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User Ratings
PrometheusVictoriaMetrics Community
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(34 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PrometheusVictoriaMetrics Community
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission.
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VictoriaMetrics
Best suited, where your data is highly cardinal since it does a better job at maintaining it than other competitors. It is also well suited if you are using Prometheus and are looking for something that is less hungry for resources in comparison since the migration would be easier. But in case the company is small and wants a solution which is cheap and relies on built-in visualizations, it is not something that is suited. Although it takes fewer resources than Prometheus, it is still resource-intensive and attracts a high cost for maintenance.
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Pros
Open Source
  • Best monitoring tool that have covered all aspects of our environment of my organization with it's useful metrics.
  • Great support team offers support 24/7 and very dedicated.
  • It provides excellent insights from a variety of metrics.
  • Cloud native tools compatibility and support, push/pull options for easier metrics.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Easy to configure and manage
  • Ready to be configured at cloud and microservices
  • Easy to scale vertically and horizontally
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Cons
Open Source
  • As I said earlier I have not encountered any major drawback just minor challenges like new users may find Prometheus a bit overwhelming with its different modules can bring confusion.
  • Also they can face issues with PromQL can be somehow complex while building an advanced dashboard.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Community and Eco system -> Although it supports the ecosystem of Prometheus, it is still troublesome for someone who's not using Prometheus
  • Configuration is not so easy, especially if you are a beginner, you will struggle a bit. Even the documentation is not so welcoming for beginners
  • Built-in Visualisation is bare minimal, leading almost everyone to use some other extension/tool
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Support Rating
Open Source
Never had to reach out to them.
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VictoriaMetrics
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical.
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VictoriaMetrics
Prometheus only support PromQL and it is very complex with different exporter required for different requirement like Windowsexporter,linixexporter,sqlexporter etc but VictoriaMetrics is very simple comapred to it. VictoriaMetrics support both PromQL and MetricQL and can be integrated with Graphana easily. It is very easy to setup and learn compared to mutiple Prometheus exporters
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • We are still working on the ROI
  • The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Lowered our infra costs in comparison with our older tools
  • Need minimal effort for migration since it already supports Prometheus ecosystem
  • Saved on Storage costs
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