Alternatives to VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as VictoriaMetrics.
Grafana Mimir
Store Prometheus-compatible metrics over long periods at distributed scale.
Grafana Mimir is AGPL-3.0 and fully free, offering multi-tenant Prometheus-compatible storage, but distributed operation requires substantial infrastructure configuration.
M3DB
Open-source distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics at scale.
M3DB is a Prometheus-compatible distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics, with operational overhead geared toward very large deployments.
InfluxDB
Store time-stamped measurements for monitoring and real-time applications.
InfluxDB is a time-series database with self-hosted and managed editions, though features differ significantly between its product generations.
GreptimeDB
Store observability data in a database queried through SQL and PromQL.
GreptimeDB stores metrics and related telemetry queried through SQL and PromQL, with object-storage-oriented deployments.
TimescaleDB
PostgreSQL extension that turns Postgres into a scalable time-series database.
TimescaleDB adds time-series storage to PostgreSQL, keeping standard Postgres tooling, with advanced clustering in its paid offering.
QuestDB
Query time-series data with a database focused on SQL and high-rate ingestion.
QuestDB focuses on time-oriented SQL queries and high-rate ingestion rather than Prometheus-compatible workflows.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database widely used as a backend for logs, traces and metrics.
ClickHouse is a columnar OLAP database used as an observability backend, but it needs extra tooling or schema design to serve metrics well.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine.
Quickwit
Search logs and other large datasets using an engine built around object storage.
Apache Superset
A self-hosted data exploration and visualization platform with a no-code chart builder and SQL IDE.
