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## vmagent
`vmagent` collects metrics from various sources and pushes them to any remote storage for Prometheus
from [this list](https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage).
The recommended remote storage is [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
`vmagent` is a tiny but brave agent, which helps you collecting metrics from various sources
and storing them to [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
<img alt="vmagent" src="logo.png">
### Motivation
While VictoriaMetrics provides an efficient solution to store and observe metrics, our users needed something fast
and RAM friendly to scrape metrics from Prometheus-compatible exporters to VictoriaMetrics.
Also, we found that users infrastructure is like snowflakes - never alike, and we decided to add more flexibility
to `vmagent` (like the ability to push metrics instead of pulling them). We did our best and plan to do even more.
### Features
* Can be used as drop-in replacement for Prometheus for scraping targets such as [node_exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter).
Just use `-promscrape.config=/path/to/prometheus.yml` command-line flag.
See [Quick Start](#quick-start) for details.
* Can add, remove and modify labels via Prometheus relabeling. See [these docs](#relabeling) for details.
* Accepts data via all the ingestion protocols supported by VictoriaMetrics:
* Influx line protocol via `http://<vmagent>:8429/write`. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-send-data-from-influxdb-compatible-agents-such-as-telegraf).
* JSON lines import protocol via `http://<vmagent>:8429/api/v1/import`. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-import-time-series-data).
* Graphite plaintext protocol if `-graphiteListenAddr` command-line flag is set. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-send-data-from-graphite-compatible-agents-such-as-statsd).
* OpenTSDB telnet and http protocols if `-opentsdbListenAddr` command-line flag is set. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-send-data-from-opentsdb-compatible-agents).
* Prometheus remote write protocol via `http://<vmagent>:8429/api/v1/write`.
* Prometheus relabeling can be applied to all the collected metrics. See [these docs](#relabeling).
* Additional labels can be added to all the collected metrics before sending them to remote storage.
Just pass these labels to `-remoteWrite.label` command-line flags: `-remoteWrite.label="labelName=labelValue"`.
* Collected metrics can be sent simultaneously to multiple remote storage systems by providing multiple `-remoteWrite.url` args.
* Can replicate collected metrics simultaneously to multiple remote storage systems.
* Works in environments with unstable connections to remote storage. If the remote storage is unavailable, the collected metrics
are buffered at `-remoteWrite.tmpDataPath` until free space is available. The buffered metrics are sent to remote storage
as soon as connection to remote storage is recovered.
are buffered at `-remoteWrite.tmpDataPath`. The buffered metrics are sent to remote storage as soon as connection
to remote storage is recovered.
* Uses lower amounts of RAM, CPU, disk IO and network bandwidth comparing to Prometheus.
### Quick start
### Quick Start
Just pass the following flags to `vmagent` in order to start scraping Prometheus targets:
Just download `vmutils-*` archive from [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases), unpack it
and pass the following flags to `vmagent` binary in order to start scraping Prometheus targets:
* `-promscrape.config` with the path to Prometheus config file (it is usually located at `/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml`)
* `-remoteWrite.url` with the remote storage endpoint such as VictoriaMetrics. Multiple `-remoteWrite.url` args can be set in parallel
in order to replicate data concurrently to multiple remote storage systems.
Example command line:
```
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Then send Influx data to `http://vmagent-host:8429/write`. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-send-data-from-influxdb-compatible-agents-such-as-telegraf) for more details.
`vmagent` is also available in [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/victoriametrics/vmagent/).
Pass `-help` to `vmagent` in order to see the full list of supported command-line flags with their descriptions.
### How to collect metrics in Prometheus format?

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