VictoriaMetrics
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 8, 2025first mention
Aug 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“add all the metrics and logs one can think of (VictoriaMetrics)”
building a SaaSon “Claude Code On-the-Go”
“VictoriaMetrics is used as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus, Thanos and Mimir.”
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“we migrated from a very expensive Thanos to a VM cluster backed by HDDs, and saved a lot. Performance was much better as well.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“VictoriaMetrics is optimized solely for typical observability tasks”
VictoriaMetrics CTOswitched from ClickHouseon “Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can s…”
Threads where it came up
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- Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI 1 mention
- Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s 1 mention
- Claude Code On-the-Go 1 mention
- Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated 1 mention
Data: victoriametrics.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“We use victoriametrics”
“my own VictoriaMetrics / Grafana set up on Kubernetes”
“add all the metrics and logs one can think of (VictoriaMetrics)”
“VictoriaMetrics is used as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus, Thanos and Mimir.”
“we migrated from a very expensive Thanos to a VM cluster backed by HDDs, and saved a lot. Performance was much better as well.”
“I'm currently implementing a full observability platform based on VictoriaMetrics / Victorialogs + Grafana.”