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 ## VictoriaMetrics - the best remote storage for Prometheus
 
-### Note - VictoriaMetrics is in alpha stage at the moment
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+### VictoriaMetrics features
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+- Simple configuration. Just copy-n-paste remote storage URL to Prometheus config and that's it! See [Quick Start](Quick-Start) for more info.
+- Reduced maintenance overhead. Prometheus local storage retention may be set to the minimum possible value - `--storage.tsdb.retention=2h` - when using VictoriaMetrics remote storage. This effectively makes Prometheus stateless, so it may be run as a stateless service in Kubernetes / Docker.
+- Insertion rate scales to millions of metric values per second.
+- Storage scales to millions of metrics with trillions of metric values.
+- Wide range of retention periods - from 1 month to 5 years. Users may create different projects (aka `storage namespaces`) with different retention periods.
+- Full [PromQL](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/) support. Additionally, VictoriaMetrics extends PromQL with useful features. See [Extended PromQL](ExtendedPromQL) for more details.
+- Fast query engine. It excels on heavy queries over thousands of metrics with millions of metric values.
+- The lowest price on the market. We can afford this thanks to cost-effective VictoriaMetrics core.
+- The same remote storage URL may be used by multiple Prometheus instances collecting distinct metric sets, so all these metrics may be used in a single query (aka `global querying view`). This works ideally for multiple Prometheus instances located in different subnetworks / datacenters.
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+### Useful links
 
 * [Site](https://victoriametrics.com/)
 * [`WITH` templates playground](https://play.victoriametrics.com/promql/expand-with-exprs)