VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance time series database designed for monitoring and observability workloads. It can act as long-term storage for Prometheus and integrates well with common metrics ecosystems such as Grafana.

Key Features

• Single-node and clustered deployment options
• Prometheus-compatible ingestion (including remote write) and querying, with support for PromQL and MetricsQL
• Multi-protocol ingestion support, including Graphite, InfluxDB line protocol, OpenTSDB, CSV, and JSON line formats
• High ingestion throughput and efficient storage compression for large cardinality metrics
• Stream aggregation for transforming and aggregating incoming metrics
• Built-in features for operational safety such as relabeling and cardinality limiting

Use Cases

• Cost-effective long-term storage backend for Prometheus metrics
• Centralized metrics ingestion from many sources (Kubernetes, IoT, APM) with unified querying
• High-volume telemetry storage and analytics where resource efficiency is critical

VictoriaMetrics is well-suited for teams that need a Prometheus-compatible TSDB with strong performance characteristics, flexible ingestion options, and scalable deployment models.