A fast, cost-effective, and scalable open-source monitoring solution and time series database.
VictoriaMetrics is an open-source time series database and monitoring platform optimized for high performance and cost efficiency. It solves the problem of storing and querying massive volumes of time series data from sources like application metrics, infrastructure monitoring, and IoT sensors, offering superior compression and query speed compared to many alternatives.
DevOps engineers, SREs, and developers who need a scalable, reliable backend for Prometheus metrics or a general-purpose time series database for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and business metrics.
Developers choose VictoriaMetrics for its exceptional performance, significantly reduced resource consumption (memory/storage), simple deployment, and broad protocol support, making it a cost-effective and operationally simpler alternative to solutions like InfluxDB, Prometheus with Thanos, or TimescaleDB.
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
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Benchmarks cited in the README show it uses up to 10x less RAM than InfluxDB and 7x less storage than Prometheus, handling millions of time series with minimal footprint.
Supports multiple protocols including Prometheus remote write, InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite, and OpenTelemetry, enabling easy integration from diverse sources like IoT and Kubernetes.
Distributed as a single, dependency-free binary with configuration via command-line flags, reducing deployment complexity and operational overhead.
Optimized for high-latency I/O and network storage such as NFS or Amazon EFS, making it cost-effective for scalable cloud deployments.
Critical enterprise features like anomaly detection, automated backups, and downsampling are locked behind the paid Enterprise version, limiting open-source usability for production needs.
Lacks native dashboarding capabilities; users must rely on external tools like Grafana for data visualization, adding complexity to the monitoring stack.
While deployment is simple, fine-tuning for large clusters requires deep understanding of numerous command-line flags and components, which can be daunting for newcomers.
VictoriaMetrics is an open-source alternative to the following products:
Graphite is an open-source time-series database and monitoring tool for storing and visualizing metrics at scale.
M3DB is a distributed time series database designed for scalability and durability, developed by Uber Technologies.
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database designed for handling high write and query loads, commonly used for monitoring metrics and events.
TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database built on PostgreSQL, optimized for fast ingestion and complex queries of time-stamped data.
Cortex is an open-source platform for machine learning model deployment, monitoring, and management in production environments.
Thanos is a highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities, providing a global query view across multiple Prometheus instances.