VictoriaMetrics Community

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What is VictoriaMetrics Community?

VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance monitoring solution and time series database

Categories & Use Cases

Mayank Bansal View profile

SRE in Information Technology at Adidas (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using VictoriaMetrics for alerting and monitoring purpose along with Prometheus alertmanager. We have configured VictoriaMetrics to pull data from alertmanager and then configure opsgenie APi key to send notification to end stakeholders. it has been helping teams at wide scale to get real time alert and not miss any outage.

Pros

Easy to configure and manage
Ready to be configured at cloud and microservices
Easy to scale vertically and horizontally

Cons

Sometimes scaling it becomes costly due to it's high abstact storage capacity at each node
very poor GUI
We faced issue with IPv6

Most Important Features

Scalability
Reliability
Supports both MetricQL and PromQL so can be integrated with multiple solutions

Return on Investment

It was easy to configure and was ready on day1 due to it's less complexity
it was easy to configure with pager duty and opsgenie for alerting
easily adopted by SRe team and has very simple learning curve

Alternatives Considered

Prometheus

Other Software Used

Snyk, HashiCorp Terraform, Google Kubernetes Engine

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VictoriaMetrics is used for storing and parsing several metrics which is a TimeSeries data. We track multiple metrics majorly related to K8s clusters, namespaces, pod level metrics, Kafka Topic monitoring, broker monitoring, and health of systems, also have some custom metrics pushed from micrometer. Custom metrics could be used by developers as well as business people to determine certain state of the system as well as the product, such as the number of orders being placed from each pin code.

Pros

Easily scalable
Less resource intensive compared to other competitors
Efficient in query performance as well as data influx
Interoperable with Prometheus plugins and queries

Cons

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

Most Important Features

Supports Prometheus ecosystem and query language
Cheaper than Prometheus in terms of resources
Built-in availability features
Efficient storage structure

Return on Investment

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