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Better Alternative for Prometheus
October 30, 2023

Better Alternative for Prometheus

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with VictoriaMetrics Community

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.
  • Easily scalable
  • Less resource intensive compared to other competitors
  • Efficient in query performance as well as data influx
  • Interoperable with Prometheus plugins and queries
  • 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
  • Supports Prometheus ecosystem and query language
  • Cheaper than Prometheus in terms of resources
  • Built-in availability features
  • Efficient storage structure
  • 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
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 interoperability of Victoria metrics the difference wouldn't concern us much. At the same time, it made our migration simpler

Do you think VictoriaMetrics Community delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VictoriaMetrics Community's feature set?

Yes

Did VictoriaMetrics Community live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of VictoriaMetrics Community go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy VictoriaMetrics Community again?

Yes

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.