VictoriaMetrics - the best remote storage for Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics features

• Simple configuration. Just copy-n-paste remote storage URL to Prometheus config and that's it! See 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 support. Additionally, VictoriaMetrics extends PromQL with useful features. See Extended PromQL 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.

Useful links

• Site
• WITH templates playground
• Grafana playground
• Docs
• FAQ
• Issues