VictoriaMetrics is fast, cost-effective and scalable time-series database. It can be used as long-term remote storage for Prometheus. It is available in binary releases, docker images and in source code. Just download VictoriaMetrics and see how to start it.
Cluster version is available here.
- Supports Prometheus querying API, so it can be used as Prometheus drop-in replacement in Grafana. Additionally, VictoriaMetrics extends PromQL with opt-in useful features.
- Supports global query view. Multiple Prometheus instances may write data into VictoriaMetrics. Later this data may be used in a single query.
- High performance and good scalability for both inserts and selects. Outperforms InfluxDB and TimescaleDB by up to 20x.
- Uses 10x less RAM than InfluxDB when working with millions of unique time series (aka high cardinality).
- Optimized for time series with high churn rate. Think about prometheus-operator metrics from frequent deployments in Kubernetes.
- High data compression, so up to 70x more data points may be crammed into limited storage comparing to TimescaleDB.
- Optimized for storage with high-latency IO and low IOPS (HDD and network storage in AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc). See graphs from these benchmarks.
- A single-node VictoriaMetrics may substitute moderately sized clusters built with competing solutions such as Thanos, Uber M3, Cortex, InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. See vertical scalability benchmarks and comparing Thanos to VictoriaMetrics cluster.
- Easy operation:
- VictoriaMetrics consists of a single small executable without external dependencies.
- All the configuration is done via explicit command-line flags with reasonable defaults.
- All the data is stored in a single directory pointed by
-storageDataPath
flag. - Easy and fast backups from instant snapshots to S3 or GCS with vmbackup / vmrestore. See this article for more details.
- Storage is protected from corruption on unclean shutdown (i.e. OOM, hardware reset or
kill -9
) thanks to the storage architecture. - Supports metrics' ingestion and backfilling via the following protocols:
- Prometheus remote write API
- InfluxDB line protocol
- Graphite plaintext protocol with tags
if
-graphiteListenAddr
is set. - OpenTSDB put message if
-opentsdbListenAddr
is set. - HTTP OpenTSDB /api/put requests if
-opentsdbHTTPListenAddr
is set. - /api/v1/import
- Ideally works with big amounts of time series data from Kubernetes, IoT sensors, connected cars, industrial telemetry, financial data and various Enterprise workloads.
- Has open source cluster version.
- How to start VictoriaMetrics
- Prometheus setup
- Grafana setup
- How to upgrade VictoriaMetrics?
- How to apply new config to VictoriaMetrics?
- How to send data from InfluxDB-compatible agents such as Telegraf?
- How to send data from Graphite-compatible agents such as StatsD?
- Querying Graphite data
- How to send data from OpenTSDB-compatible agents?
- Prometheus querying API usage
- How to build from sources
- Start with docker-compose
- Setting up service
- Third-party contributions
- How to work with snapshots?
- How to delete time series?
- How to export time series?
- How to import time series data?
- Federation
- Capacity planning
- High availability
- Multiple retentions
- Downsampling
- Multi-tenancy
- Scalability and cluster version
- Alerting
- Security
- Tuning
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Backfilling
- Profiling
- Integrations
- Roadmap
- Contacts
- Community and contributions
- Reporting bugs
- Victoria Metrics Logo
Just start VictoriaMetrics executable or docker image with the desired command-line flags.
The following command-line flags are used the most:
-storageDataPath
- path to data directory. VictoriaMetrics stores all the data in this directory. Default path isvictoria-metrics-data
in current working directory.-retentionPeriod
- retention period in months for the data. Older data is automatically deleted. Default period is 1 month.-httpListenAddr
- TCP address to listen to for http requests. By default, it listens port8428
on all the network interfaces.-graphiteListenAddr
- TCP and UDP address to listen to for Graphite data. By default, it is disabled.-opentsdbListenAddr
- TCP and UDP address to listen to for OpenTSDB data over telnet protocol. By default, it is disabled.-opentsdbHTTPListenAddr
- TCP address to listen to for HTTP OpenTSDB data over/api/put
. By default, it is disabled.
Pass -help
to see all the available flags with description and default values.
It is recommended setting up monitoring for VictoriaMetrics.
Add the following lines to Prometheus config file (it is usually located at /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
):
remote_write:
- url: http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/api/v1/write
queue_config:
max_samples_per_send: 10000
max_shards: 30
Substitute <victoriametrics-addr>
with the hostname or IP address of VictoriaMetrics.
Then apply the new config via the following command:
kill -HUP `pidof prometheus`
Prometheus writes incoming data to local storage and replicates it to remote storage in parallel.
This means the data remains available in local storage for --storage.tsdb.retention.time
duration
even if remote storage is unavailable.
If you plan to send data to VictoriaMetrics from multiple Prometheus instances, then add the following lines into global
section
of Prometheus config:
global:
external_labels:
datacenter: dc-123
This instructs Prometheus to add datacenter=dc-123
label to each time series sent to remote storage.
The label name may be arbitrary - datacenter
is just an example. The label value must be unique
across Prometheus instances, so those time series may be filtered and grouped by this label.
It is recommended upgrading Prometheus to v2.12.0 or newer,
since the previous versions may have issues with remote_write
.
Create Prometheus datasource in Grafana with the following Url:
http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428
Substitute <victoriametrics-addr>
with the hostname or IP address of VictoriaMetrics.
Then build graphs with the created datasource using Prometheus query language. VictoriaMetrics supports native PromQL and extends it with useful features.
It is safe upgrading VictoriaMetrics to new versions unless release notes say otherwise. It is recommended performing regular upgrades to the latest version, since it may contain important bug fixes, performance optimizations or new features.
Follow the following steps during the upgrade:
- Send
SIGINT
signal to VictoriaMetrics process in order to gracefully stop it. - Wait until the process stops. This can take a few seconds.
- Start the upgraded VictoriaMetrics.
Prometheus doesn't drop data during VictoriaMetrics restart. See this article for details.
VictoriaMetrics must be restarted for applying new config:
- Send
SIGINT
signal to VictoriaMetrics process in order to gracefully stop it. - Wait until the process stops. This can take a few seconds.
- Start VictoriaMetrics with the new config.
Prometheus doesn't drop data during VictoriaMetrics restart. See this article for details.
How to send data from InfluxDB-compatible agents such as Telegraf?
Just use http://<victoriametric-addr>:8428
url instead of InfluxDB url in agents' configs.
For instance, put the following lines into Telegraf
config, so it sends data to VictoriaMetrics instead of InfluxDB:
[[outputs.influxdb]]
urls = ["http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428"]
Do not forget substituting <victoriametrics-addr>
with the real address where VictoriaMetrics runs.
VictoriaMetrics maps Influx data using the following rules:
db
query arg is mapped intodb
label value unlessdb
tag exists in the Influx line.- Field names are mapped to time series names prefixed with
{measurement}{separator}
value, where{separator}
equals to_
by default. It can be changed with-influxMeasurementFieldSeparator
command-line flag. See also-influxSkipSingleField
command-line flag. If{measurement}
is empty, then time series names correspond to field names. - Field values are mapped to time series values.
- Tags are mapped to Prometheus labels as-is.
For example, the following Influx line:
foo,tag1=value1,tag2=value2 field1=12,field2=40
is converted into the following Prometheus data points:
foo_field1{tag1="value1", tag2="value2"} 12
foo_field2{tag1="value1", tag2="value2"} 40
Example for writing data with Influx line protocol
to local VictoriaMetrics using curl
:
curl -d 'measurement,tag1=value1,tag2=value2 field1=123,field2=1.23' -X POST 'http://localhost:8428/write'
An arbitrary number of lines delimited by '\n' may be sent in a single request. After that the data may be read via /api/v1/export endpoint:
curl -G 'http://localhost:8428/api/v1/export' -d 'match={__name__=~"measurement_.*"}'
The /api/v1/export
endpoint should return the following response:
{"metric":{"__name__":"measurement_field1","tag1":"value1","tag2":"value2"},"values":[123],"timestamps":[1560272508147]}
{"metric":{"__name__":"measurement_field2","tag1":"value1","tag2":"value2"},"values":[1.23],"timestamps":[1560272508147]}
Note that Influx line protocol expects timestamps in nanoseconds by default, while VictoriaMetrics stores them with milliseconds precision.
How to send data from Graphite-compatible agents such as StatsD?
- Enable Graphite receiver in VictoriaMetrics by setting
-graphiteListenAddr
command line flag. For instance, the following command will enable Graphite receiver in VictoriaMetrics on TCP and UDP port2003
:
/path/to/victoria-metrics-prod -graphiteListenAddr=:2003
- Use the configured address in Graphite-compatible agents. For instance, set
graphiteHost
to the VictoriaMetrics host inStatsD
configs.
Example for writing data with Graphite plaintext protocol to local VictoriaMetrics using nc
:
echo "foo.bar.baz;tag1=value1;tag2=value2 123 `date +%s`" | nc -N localhost 2003
VictoriaMetrics sets the current time if the timestamp is omitted.
An arbitrary number of lines delimited by \n
may be sent in one go.
After that the data may be read via /api/v1/export endpoint:
curl -G 'http://localhost:8428/api/v1/export' -d 'match=foo.bar.baz'
The /api/v1/export
endpoint should return the following response:
{"metric":{"__name__":"foo.bar.baz","tag1":"value1","tag2":"value2"},"values":[123],"timestamps":[1560277406000]}
Data sent to VictoriaMetrics via Graphite plaintext protocol
may be read either via
Prometheus querying API
or via go-graphite/carbonapi.
VictoriaMetrics supports telnet put protocol and HTTP /api/put requests for ingesting OpenTSDB data.
- Enable OpenTSDB receiver in VictoriaMetrics by setting
-opentsdbListenAddr
command line flag. For instance, the following command enables OpenTSDB receiver in VictoriaMetrics on TCP and UDP port4242
:
/path/to/victoria-metrics-prod -opentsdbListenAddr=:4242
- Send data to the given address from OpenTSDB-compatible agents.
Example for writing data with OpenTSDB protocol to local VictoriaMetrics using nc
:
echo "put foo.bar.baz `date +%s` 123 tag1=value1 tag2=value2" | nc -N localhost 4242
An arbitrary number of lines delimited by \n
may be sent in one go.
After that the data may be read via /api/v1/export endpoint:
curl -G 'http://localhost:8428/api/v1/export' -d 'match=foo.bar.baz'
The /api/v1/export
endpoint should return the following response:
{"metric":{"__name__":"foo.bar.baz","tag1":"value1","tag2":"value2"},"values":[123],"timestamps":[1560277292000]}
- Enable HTTP server for OpenTSDB
/api/put
requests by setting-opentsdbHTTPListenAddr
command line flag. For instance, the following command enables OpenTSDB HTTP server on port4242
:
/path/to/victoria-metrics-prod -opentsdbHTTPListenAddr=:4242
- Send data to the given address from OpenTSDB-compatible agents.
Example for writing a single data point:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"metric":"x.y.z","value":45.34,"tags":{"t1":"v1","t2":"v2"}}' http://localhost:4242/api/put
Example for writing multiple data points in a single request:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{"metric":"foo","value":45.34},{"metric":"bar","value":43}]' http://localhost:4242/api/put
After that the data may be read via /api/v1/export endpoint:
curl -G 'http://localhost:8428/api/v1/export' -d 'match[]=x.y.z' -d 'match[]=foo' -d 'match[]=bar'
The /api/v1/export
endpoint should return the following response:
{"metric":{"__name__":"foo"},"values":[45.34],"timestamps":[1566464846000]}
{"metric":{"__name__":"bar"},"values":[43],"timestamps":[1566464846000]}
{"metric":{"__name__":"x.y.z","t1":"v1","t2":"v2"},"values":[45.34],"timestamps":[1566464763000]}
VictoriaMetrics supports the following handlers from Prometheus querying API:
These handlers can be queried from Prometheus-compatible clients such as Grafana or curl.
We recommend using either binary releases or docker images instead of building VictoriaMetrics from sources. Building from sources is reasonable when developing additional features specific to your needs.
- Install Go. The minimum supported version is Go 1.12.
- Run
make victoria-metrics
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvictoria-metrics
binary and puts it into thebin
folder.
- Install docker.
- Run
make victoria-metrics-prod
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvictoria-metrics-prod
binary and puts it into thebin
folder.
ARM build may run on Raspberry Pi or on energy-efficient ARM servers.
- Install Go. The minimum supported version is Go 1.12.
- Run
make victoria-metrics-arm
ormake victoria-metrics-arm64
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvictoria-metrics-arm
orvictoria-metrics-arm64
binary respectively and puts it into thebin
folder.
- Install docker.
- Run
make victoria-metrics-arm-prod
ormake victoria-metrics-arm64-prod
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvictoria-metrics-arm-prod
orvictoria-metrics-arm64-prod
binary respectively and puts it into thebin
folder.
Pure Go
mode builds only Go code without cgo dependencies.
This is an experimental mode, which may result in a lower compression ratio and slower decompression performance.
Use it with caution!
- Install Go. The minimum supported version is Go 1.12.
- Run
make victoria-metrics-pure
from the root folder of the repository. It buildsvictoria-metrics-pure
binary and puts it into thebin
folder.
Run make package-victoria-metrics
. It builds victoriametrics/victoria-metrics:<PKG_TAG>
docker image locally.
<PKG_TAG>
is auto-generated image tag, which depends on source code in the repository.
The <PKG_TAG>
may be manually set via PKG_TAG=foobar make package-victoria-metrics
.
Docker-compose helps to spin up VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus and Grafana with one command. More details may be found here.
Read these instructions on how to set up VictoriaMetrics as a service in your OS.
VictoriaMetrics can create instant snapshots
for all the data stored under -storageDataPath
directory.
Navigate to http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/snapshot/create
in order to create an instant snapshot.
The page will return the following JSON response:
{"status":"ok","snapshot":"<snapshot-name>"}
Snapshots are created under <-storageDataPath>/snapshots
directory, where <-storageDataPath>
is the command-line flag value. Snapshots can be archived to backup storage at any time
with vmbackup.
The http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/snapshot/list
page contains the list of available snapshots.
Navigate to http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/snapshot/delete?snapshot=<snapshot-name>
in order
to delete <snapshot-name>
snapshot.
Navigate to http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/snapshot/delete_all
in order to delete all the snapshots.
Steps for restoring from a snapshot:
- Stop VictoriaMetrics with
kill -INT
. - Restore snapshot contents from backup with vmrestore
to the directory pointed by
-storageDataPath
. - Start VictoriaMetrics.
Send a request to http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series?match[]=<timeseries_selector_for_delete>
,
where <timeseries_selector_for_delete>
may contain any time series selector
for metrics to delete. After that all the time series matching the given selector are deleted. Storage space for
the deleted time series isn't freed instantly - it is freed during subsequent merges of data files.
It is recommended verifying which metrics will be deleted with the call to http://<victoria-metrics-addr>:8428/api/v1/series?match[]=<timeseries_selector_for_delete>
before actually deleting the metrics.
Send a request to http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/api/v1/export?match[]=<timeseries_selector_for_export>
,
where <timeseries_selector_for_export>
may contain any time series selector
for metrics to export. Use {__name__!=""}
selector for fetching all the time series.
The response would contain all the data for the selected time series in JSON streaming format.
Each JSON line would contain data for a single time series. An example output:
{"metric":{"__name__":"up","job":"node_exporter","instance":"localhost:9100"},"values":[0,0,0],"timestamps":[1549891472010,1549891487724,1549891503438]}
{"metric":{"__name__":"up","job":"prometheus","instance":"localhost:9090"},"values":[1,1,1],"timestamps":[1549891461511,1549891476511,1549891491511]}
Optional start
and end
args may be added to the request in order to limit the time frame for the exported data. These args may contain either
unix timestamp in seconds or RFC3339 values.
Exported data can be imported via POST'ing it to /api/v1/import.
Time series data can be imported via any supported ingestion protocol:
- Prometheus remote_write API
- Influx line protocol
- Graphite plaintext protocol
- OpenTSDB telnet put protocol
- OpenTSDB http /api/put
/api/v1/import
http POST handler, which accepts data from /api/v1/export.
The most efficient protocol for importing data into VictoriaMetrics is /api/v1/import
. Example for importing data obtained via /api/v1/export
:
# Export the data from <source-victoriametrics>:
curl -s 'http://source-victoriametrics:8428/api/v1/export' -d 'match={__name__!=""}' > exported_data.jsonl
# Import the data to <destination-victoriametrics>:
curl -X POST 'http://destination-victoriametrics:8428/api/v1/import' -T exported_data.jsonl
Each request to /api/v1/import
can load up to a single vCPU core on VictoriaMetrics. Import speed can be improved by splitting the original file into smaller parts
and importing them concurrently. Note that the original file must be split on newlines.
VictoriaMetrics exports Prometheus-compatible federation data
at http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/federate?match[]=<timeseries_selector_for_federation>
.
Optional start
and end
args may be added to the request in order to scrape the last point for each selected time series on the [start ... end]
interval.
start
and end
may contain either unix timestamp in seconds or RFC3339 values. By default, the last point
on the interval [now - max_lookback ... now]
is scraped for each time series. The default value for max_lookback
is 5m
(5 minutes), but it can be overridden.
For instance, /federate?match[]=up&max_lookback=1h
would return last points on the [now - 1h ... now]
interval. This may be useful for time series federation
with scrape intervals exceeding 5m
.
A rough estimation of the required resources for ingestion path:
-
RAM size: less than 1KB per active time series. So, ~1GB of RAM is required for 1M active time series. Time series is considered active if new data points have been added to it recently or if it has been recently queried. The number of active time series may be obtained from
vm_cache_entries{type="storage/hour_metric_ids"}
metric exproted on the/metrics
page. VictoriaMetrics stores various caches in RAM. Memory size for these caches may be limited by-memory.allowedPercent
flag. -
CPU cores: a CPU core per 300K inserted data points per second. So, ~4 CPU cores are required for processing the insert stream of 1M data points per second. The ingestion rate may be lower for high cardinality data or for time series with high number of labels. See this article for details. If you see lower numbers per CPU core, then it is likely active time series info doesn't fit caches, so you need more RAM for lowering CPU usage.
-
Storage space: less than a byte per data point on average. So, ~260GB is required for storing a month-long insert stream of 100K data points per second. The actual storage size heavily depends on data randomness (entropy). Higher randomness means higher storage size requirements. Read this article for details.
-
Network usage: outbound traffic is negligible. Ingress traffic is ~100 bytes per ingested data point via Prometheus remote_write API. The actual ingress bandwidth usage depends on the average number of labels per ingested metric and the average size of label values. The higher number of per-metric labels and longer label values mean the higher ingress bandwidth.
The required resources for query path:
-
RAM size: depends on the number of time series to scan in each query and the
step
argument passed to /api/v1/query_range. The higher number of scanned time series and lowerstep
argument results in the higher RAM usage. -
CPU cores: a CPU core per 30 millions of scanned data points per second.
-
Network usage: depends on the frequency and the type of incoming requests. Typical Grafana dashboards usually require negligible network bandwidth.
- Install multiple VictoriaMetrics instances in distinct datacenters (availability zones).
- Add addresses of these instances to
remote_write
section in Prometheus config:
remote_write:
- url: http://<victoriametrics-addr-1>:8428/api/v1/write
queue_config:
max_samples_per_send: 10000
# ...
- url: http://<victoriametrics-addr-N>:8428/api/v1/write
queue_config:
max_samples_per_send: 10000
- Apply the updated config:
kill -HUP `pidof prometheus`
- Now Prometheus should write data into all the configured
remote_write
urls in parallel. - Set up Promxy in front of all the VictoriaMetrics replicas.
- Set up Prometheus datasource in Grafana that points to Promxy.
If you have Prometheus HA pairs with replicas r1
and r2
in each pair, then configure each r1
to write data to victoriametrics-addr-1
, while each r2
should write data to victoriametrics-addr-2
.
Just start multiple VictoriaMetrics instances with distinct values for the following flags:
-retentionPeriod
-storageDataPath
, so the data for each retention period is saved in a separate directory-httpListenAddr
, so clients may reach VictoriaMetrics instance with proper retention
There is no downsampling support at the moment, but:
- VictoriaMetrics is optimized for querying big amounts of raw data. See benchmark results for heavy queries in this article.
- VictoriaMetrics has good compression for on-disk data. See this article for details.
These properties reduce the need in downsampling. We plan to implement downsampling in the future. See this issue for details.
Single-node VictoriaMetrics doesn't support multi-tenancy. Use cluster version instead.
Though single-node VictoriaMetrics cannot scale to multiple nodes, it is optimized for resource usage - storage size / bandwidth / IOPS, RAM, CPU. This means that a single-node VictoriaMetrics may scale vertically and substitute a moderately sized cluster built with competing solutions such as Thanos, Uber M3, InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. See vertical scalability benchmarks.
So try single-node VictoriaMetrics at first and then switch to cluster version if you still need horizontally scalable long-term remote storage for really large Prometheus deployments. Contact us for paid support.
VictoriaMetrics doesn't support rule evaluation and alerting yet, so these actions must be performed either on Prometheus side or on Grafana side.
Do not forget protecting sensitive endpoints in VictoriaMetrics when exposing it to untrusted networks such as the internet. Consider setting the following command-line flags:
-tls
,-tlsCertFile
and-tlsKeyFile
for switching from HTTP to HTTPS.-httpAuth.username
and-httpAuth.password
for protecting all the HTTP endpoints with HTTP Basic Authentication.-deleteAuthKey
for protecting/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_series
endpoint. See how to delete time series.-snapshotAuthKey
for protecting/snapshot*
endpoints. See how to work with snapshots.
Explicitly set internal network interface for TCP and UDP ports for data ingestion with Graphite and OpenTSDB formats.
For example, substitute -graphiteListenAddr=:2003
with -graphiteListenAddr=<internal_iface_ip>:2003
.
- There is no need in VictoriaMetrics tuning since it uses reasonable defaults for command-line flags, which are automatically adjusted for the available CPU and RAM resources.
- There is no need in Operating System tuning since VictoriaMetrics is optimized for default OS settings. The only option is increasing the limit on the number of open files in the OS, so Prometheus instances could establish more connections to VictoriaMetrics.
- The recommended filesystem is
ext4
, the recommended persistent storage is persistent HDD-based disk on GCP, since it is protected from hardware failures via internal replication and it can be resized on the fly. If you plan storing more than 1TB of data onext4
partition or plan extending it to more than 16TB, then the following options are recommended to pass tomkfs.ext4
:
mkfs.ext4 ... -O 64bit,huge_file,extent -T huge
VictoriaMetrics exports internal metrics in Prometheus format on the /metrics
page.
Add this page to Prometheus' scrape config in order to collect VictoriaMetrics metrics.
There are officials Grafana dashboards for single-node VictoriaMetrics and clustered VictoriaMetrics.
The most interesting metrics are:
vm_cache_entries{type="storage/hour_metric_ids"}
- the number of time series with new data points during the last hour aka active time series.rate(vm_new_timeseries_created_total[5m])
- time series churn rate.vm_rows{type="indexdb"}
- the number of rows in inverted index. High value for this number usually mean high churn rate for time series.- Sum of
vm_rows{type="storage/big"}
andvm_rows{type="storage/small"}
- total number of(timestamp, value)
data points in the database. - Sum of all the
vm_cache_size_bytes
metrics - the total size of all the caches in the database. vm_allowed_memory_bytes
- the maximum allowed size for caches in the database. It is calculated assystem_memory * <-memory.allowedPercent> / 100
, wheresystem_memory
is the amount of system memory and-memory.allowedPercent
is the corresponding flag value.vm_rows_inserted_total
- the total number of inserted rows since VictoriaMetrics start.
-
It is recommended to use default command-line flag values (i.e. don't set them explicitly) until the need in tweaking these flag values arises.
-
If VictoriaMetrics works slowly and eats more than a CPU core per 100K ingested data points per second, then it is likely you have too many active time series for the current amount of RAM. It is recommended increasing the amount of RAM on the node with VictoriaMetrics in order to improve ingestion performance. Another option is to increase
-memory.allowedPercent
command-line flag value. Be careful with this option, since too big value for-memory.allowedPercent
may result in high I/O usage. -
VictoriaMetrics requires free disk space for merging data files to bigger ones. It may slow down when there is no enough free space left. So make sure
-storageDataPath
directory has at least 20% of free space comparing to disk size. -
If VictoriaMetrics doesn't work because of certain parts are corrupted due to disk errors, then just remove directoreis with broken parts. This will recover VictoriaMetrics at the cost of data loss stored in the broken parts. In the future,
vmrecover
tool will be created for automatic recovering from such errors.
Make sure that configured -retentionPeriod
covers timestamps for the backfilled data.
It is recommended disabling query cache with -search.disableCache
command-line flag when writing
historical data with timestamps from the past, since the cache assumes that the data is written with
the current timestamps. Query cache can be enabled after the backfilling is complete.
VictoriaMetrics provides handlers for collecting the following Go profiles:
- Memory profile. It can be collected with the following command:
curl -s http://<victoria-metrics-host>:8428/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
- CPU profile. It can be collected with the following command:
curl -s http://<victoria-metrics-host>:8428/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
The command for collecting CPU profile waits for 30 seconds before returning.
The collected profiles may be analyzed with go tool pprof.
- netdata can push data into VictoriaMetrics via
Prometheus remote_write API
. See these docs. - go-graphite/carbonapi can use VictoriaMetrics as time series backend. See this example.
- Ansible role for installing VictoriaMetrics.
- Replication #118
- Support of Object Storages (GCS, S3, Azure Storage) #38
- Data downsampling #36
- Alert Manager Integration #119
- CLI tool for data migration, re-balancing and adding/removing nodes #103
The discussion happens here. Feel free to comment any item or add own one.
Contact us with any questions regarding VictoriaMetrics at [email protected].
Feel free asking any questions regarding VictoriaMetrics:
If you like VictoriaMetrics and want to contribute, then we need the following:
- Filing issues and feature requests here.
- Spreading a word about VictoriaMetrics: conference talks, articles, comments, experience sharing with colleagues.
- Updating documentation.
We are open to third-party pull requests provided they follow KISS design principle:
- Prefer simple code and architecture.
- Avoid complex abstractions.
- Avoid magic code and fancy algorithms.
- Avoid big external dependencies.
- Minimize the number of moving parts in the distributed system.
- Avoid automated decisions, which may hurt cluster availability, consistency or performance.
Adhering KISS
principle simplifies the resulting code and architecture, so it can be reviewed, understood and verified by many people.
Report bugs and propose new features here.
Zip contains three folders with different image orientation (main color and inverted version).
Files included in each folder:
- 2 JPEG Preview files
- 2 PNG Preview files with transparent background
- 2 EPS Adobe Illustrator EPS10 files
- Lato Black
- Lato Regular
- Please don't use any other font instead of suggested.
- There should be sufficient clear space around the logo.
- Do not change spacing, alignment, or relative locations of the design elements.
- Do not change the proportions of any of the design elements or the design itself. You may resize as needed but must retain all proportions.