[EdwardDiego]

Did you start with Victoria directly? Or move to it from Prometheus? Keen to hear your experiences.

We're currently running Prometheus + Thanos, and high cardinality timeseries are a real issue, which Victoria claims to be good at.

[shitloadofbooks]

We went from Prometheus (bursting at the seams and begging to be scaled) -> a failed Cortex implementation -> a rock solid Victoria Metrics implementation.

We found Cortex to be extremely over-engineered, extremely hard to tune (because of multiple configuration/argument refactors with incomplete doc cleanups) and found that it would just fall over under load. (Though to be fair, there wasn't much in the way of first-party deployment tooling at the time, so it was a hand-rolled Helm chart and at least 50% of the issues were likely my config).

In comparison, the first-party Victoria Metrics Helm chart worked straight out of the box, the maintainers have fixed multiple small issues within hours of me reporting them and we've thrown an extremely large amount of metrics at it with zero problems.

[cevian]

(Promscale Team Lead Here) Promscale, which connects Prometheus to TimescaleDB also handles high-cardinality well and allows you to use both PromQL and SQL for data analysis. I'd humbly suggest taking a look. Plus our PromQL implementation is 100% standards compliant.

[valyala]

It would be great conducting a benchmark between Promscale and VictoriaMetrics similar to this one - https://valyala.medium.com/prometheus-vs-victoriametrics-ben... . It differs from TSBS in the following aspects:

* It is based on real-world data instead of synthetic data.

* It measures resources usage (RAM, CPU, disk IO, disk space) during production-like load instead of measuring peak performance under the maximum synthetic load.

[pointestimate]

I would love to have some kind of integration between Victoria Metrics and Promscale, using VM for ingest from things like InfluxDB and Promscale for SQL queries on stable data.

[valyala]

This should be already possible - just collect Influx line protocol data with vmagent [1] and write it to Promscale.

[1] https://victoriametrics.github.io/vmagent.html