[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.