[hagen1778]

Comparing self-hosted prices with managed solutions isn't exactly apples to apples.

But if you do compare, VictoriaMetrics cloud for 3Mil active series and twice higher ingestion rate (100K samples/s or 30s scrape interval) will cost you ~$1k/month + storage costs.

See https://victoriametrics.cloud/#estimate-cost

[apurvamehta]

Agreed. VictoriaMetrics is indeed a very compelling offering. The disk-less approach is significantly simpler to operate, which I think is the biggest difference. Running opendata's version yourself has fewer moving pieces, and standard operations become trivial because no single service retains permanent state.

It's a meaningful change in calculation of running yourself vs paying someone to do it for you IMO.

[agavra]

anecdotally I've heard confirmations of the challenge of running VictoriaMetrics clusters at scale. they're way better than Cortex/Thanos and they've built a pretty awesome product but still are a pretty significant operational burden.