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VictoriaMetrics is an Apache-2.0 fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time-series database compatible with Prometheus, available single-node or clustered.

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Introduction

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time-series database. It accepts Prometheus remote write and other ingestion protocols, supports PromQL plus its MetricsQL extensions, and runs as a single binary or as a cluster.

The source code is at VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence, with about 18,100 stars; the most recent commit was on 11 November 2026.

Features

  1. Prometheus compatible: Remote write and PromQL.
  2. MetricsQL: Extended query language.
  3. Single-node and cluster: Scale as needed.
  4. vmagent: Lightweight scraping agent.
  5. Efficient storage: High compression, per the vendor.

Pros

  1. Free to use: Open source under Apache-2.0.
  2. Maintained: Commits as recent as 11 November 2026.
  3. Community: About 18,100 GitHub stars.

Cons

  1. Enterprise features paid: Some features are in the enterprise edition.
  2. Different from upstream: Some behaviours differ from Prometheus.
docker run -it -p 8428:8428 victoriametrics/victoria-metrics

Point Prometheus remote_write or vmagent at it and add it as a Prometheus data source in Grafana.

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Pricing

Open-source edition is free (Apache-2.0); enterprise and cloud editions are paid, see site.

  1. Teams needing cheaper long-term metrics.
  2. Prometheus users hitting scale limits.
  3. Not a fit for logs or traces alone.

Conclusion

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, efficient Prometheus-compatible time-series database.

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