Tag Archives: VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics Cloud: integration with AWS Data Firehose for CloudWatch metrics

2 October 2024
 

  I will write about VictoriaMetrics Cloud itself separately, but now I want to check how you can write CloudWatch Metrics via AWS Firehose to VictoriaMetrics Cloud. In fact, the AWS Data Firehose service itself allows you to transfer streaming data from various sources to Amazon services such as AWS S3, Redshift, Open Search, or… Read More »

VictoriaLogs: an overview, run in Kubernetes, LogsQL, and Grafana

9 September 2024
 

 VictoriaLogs is a relatively new system for collecting and analyzing logs, similar to Grafana Loki, but – like VictoriaMetrics compared to vanilla Prometheus – less demanding on CPU/Memory resources. Personally, I’ve been using Grafana Loki for about 5 years, but sometimes I have concerns about it – both in terms of documentation and the overall… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: pushing metrics without Prometheus Pushgateway

18 November 2023
 

 In the Prometheus: running Pushgateway on Kubernetes with Helm and Terraform post I wrote about how to add Pushgateway to Prometheus, which allows using the Push model instead of Pull, that is, an Exporter can send metrics directly to the database instead of waiting for Prometheus or VMAgent to come to it. With VictoriaMetrics, it’s… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: VMAuth – Proxy, Authentication, and Authorization

27 August 2023
 

  We continue to develop our monitoring stack. See the first part – VictoriaMetrics: creating a Kubernetes monitoring stack with its own Helm chart. What do we want to do next: give access to developers so that they can set Silence for alerts themselves in Alertmanager to avoid spamming Slack, see Prometheus: Alertmanager Web UI alerts… Read More »

Grafana Loki: performance optimization with Recording Rules, caching, and parallel queries

19 August 2023
 

  So, we have Loki installed from the chart in simple-scale mode, see Grafana Loki: architecture and running in Kubernetes with AWS S3 storage and boltdb-shipper. Loki is runnings on an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster, installed with Loki Helm chart, AWS S3 is used as a long-term store, and BoltDB Shipper is used to… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: deploying a Kubernetes monitoring stack

23 July 2023
 

  Now we have VictoriaMetrics + Grafana on a regular EC2 instance, launched with Docker Compose, see the VictoriaMetrics: an overview and its use instead of Prometheus. It was kind of a Proof of Concept, and it’s time to launch it “in an adult way” – in Kubernetes and all the configurations stored in a… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: an overview and its use instead of Prometheus

11 June 2023
 

  I’ve heard a lot about VictoriaMetrics for a long time, and finally, it’s time to try it out. So, in a nutshell – VictoriaMetrics is “Prometheus on steroids” and is fully compatible with it – can use its configuration files, exporters, PromQL, etc. So for me who has always used Prometheus, the first question… Read More »