Infra & metrics
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics Inc.
A from-scratch, Prometheus-compatible TSDB pitched as the cheap, simple, high-compression replacement for Prometheus + Thanos/Mimir.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Low
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Rising
- Popularity
- ≈17k GitHub stars; fast-growing
The catch
Strong on cost/compression, but it's a single-vendor project (not foundation-owned), and the most enterprise-attractive features (downsampling, multi-retention, anomaly detection) sit behind the Enterprise license despite the "fully open source" marketing.
Monitors
MetricsServersK8sCloud
Capabilities
AlertingAnomaly detectionAPI
Built for
SRE / DevOpsEnterprise
The honest take
The “your Prometheus bill/ops got out of hand” escape hatch — genuinely cheaper and simpler than running Thanos or Mimir. Just clock that it’s one company’s project and the spiciest features are Enterprise-only.