# VictoriaMetrics

26 Hacker News commenters recommended VictoriaMetrics and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a low-maintenance, drop-in Prometheus replacement that is cheap on storage and easy to run. Critics mention an operational burden and no full dashboard UI like Grafana.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy to run and reliable (5 comments): "It's one of those things that just work. It's extremely easy to run at in a single-instance mode and handles much more than you would expect." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935666)) "It has proven itself time and time again at scale, and requires a very low support investment." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789568)) "People quickly notice how reliable and low fuss it is, and from there adoption grows." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772114))
- Low resource and storage costs (6 comments): "Resource usage for ingestion/storage is much lower than other solutions, and you get more for your money." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937732)) "Consider migrating to VictoriaMetrics and saving on storage costs and operations costs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151013)) "VictoriaMetrics is optimized for such a storage, so it saves the flash drive life." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295609))
- Handles large scale well (5 comments): "It has proven itself time and time again at scale, and requires a very low support investment." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789568)) "appeared to work great for the infrastructure team of an open source online video game" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123079)) "They're using VictoriaMetrics on approx scale of 5 Billion active time series" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952224))
- Drop-in Prometheus replacement (2 comments): "VictoriaMetrics is used as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus, Thanos and Mimir. It works perfectly across all the existing dashboards" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951345)) "Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics for metrics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085504))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [TimescaleDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/timescaledb.md): 21 recommend
- [Grafana Mimir](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mimir.md): 12 recommend
- [kdb+ by KX](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kdb-plus.md): 9 recommend
- [RRDtool](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rrdtool.md): 6 recommend
- [InfluxDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/influxdb.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "VictoriaMetrics", https://hackerapproved.com/p/victoriametrics/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).