VictoriaLogs
Ranked 2 of 4 log analytics platforms by recommenders
Open-source log database people recommend for storing large volumes of logs compactly and running it simply, often as an alternative to Elastic.
8 people recommended VictoriaLogs in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 12 comments.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 7 of 12 months
In 9 different threads.
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 9 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 25% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 12 of the 14 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simple to set up and run
“It really is incredible technology in how simple and easy to operate it is.”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout” “it was just easy to set up once I put my mind to it”
Comment from 19 May 2026 in “Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s” “So this is simpler and less learning curve.”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 in “How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout” - Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s”
Compact columnar storage saves disk
“it stores logs in column-oriented compressed format, so they occupy small amounts of disk space”
Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes” “wants saving 2x-4x on the persistent storage pricing”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “S3 Files and the changing face of S3”
Other log analytics platforms people recommend
The three most recommended other log analytics platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana Loki | 16 | 1 | 7 | 70% | 7 | — | Approved |
| VictoriaLogsThis page | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| ELK stack | 7 | 5 | 7 | 50% | 4 | — | — |
| Splunk | 5 | 1 | 19 | 21% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 14 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Night and day compared to Elastic”
“it stores logs in column-oriented compressed format, so they occupy small amounts of disk space”
“It really is incredible technology in how simple and easy to operate it is.”
“So this is simpler and less learning curve.”
“it was just easy to set up once I put my mind to it”
“It is schemaless and zero-config.”
“VictoriaMetrics and Logs have worked fine in my quiet homelab”
“Proper logging storage like VictoriaLogs/Traces for distributed logging.”
“wants saving 2x-4x on the persistent storage pricing”
“try alternatives without this requirement, such as VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs and VictoriaTraces”
“It scales to hundreds of terabytes of logs on a single node, and it can scale to petabytes of logs in cluster mode.”
“VictoriaLogs for logs. Integrates natively with Grafana using VictoriaLogs datasource.”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.