shouldiuse.io

VERDICT

Should I use VictoriaMetrics?

Monitoring & observability for metrics, logs and traces. Fast, high-performance, open source database solutions from VictoriaMetrics. - victoriametrics.com

Depends. Buy if you run Kubernetes or Prometheus at serious scale and want cheaper long-term metrics, logs, and traces storage. Skip if you're a small team — plain Prometheus or a managed SaaS is simpler to operate.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 25+ public sources; review snippets were truncated and no numeric ratings were found.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo user evidence on support responsiveness
  • Security posture

Pricing

Free

Open Source

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
CloudFrom ~$190/mo
EnterpriseCustom

Best for

  • Kubernetes teams outgrowing Prometheus
  • High-cardinality, high-volume metrics at scale
  • Cost-sensitive infrastructure teams
  • Self-hosters wanting open source observability

Not for

  • Small teams monitoring a handful of services
  • Buyers wanting zero-ops SaaS dashboards (Cloud starts ~$190/mo)
  • Non-technical teams without DevOps capacity
  • Simple setups where plain Prometheus already suffices

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

VictoriaMetrics Cloud minimum is ~$190/month for the smallest tier

medium

Cloud storage billed at $0.511/GB — long retention quietly inflates bills

medium

Open source self-hosting leaves upgrades, backups, and capacity planning entirely on you

medium

Multiple CVEs in 2025–2026 (auth endpoint, DoS, path traversal); patch promptly

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Cost-effective: GitHub claims 10x storage cost reduction
  • Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatible — easy drop-in for Kubernetes monitoring
  • Open source core is free to self-host
  • Users report handling millions of metrics at high cardinality
  • Proven at scale — Spotify is among documented case studies

Cons

  • Cloud starts around $190/month — steep for small workloads
  • Self-hosting means owning upgrades, scaling, and backups yourself
  • Multi-component stack (metrics, logs, agents) adds setup complexity

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/20/2026 - 12 sources - Actively maintained with published security certifications, but several 2025–2026 CVEs require prompt patching.

official x4review x4security x3news x1
  • CVE-2026-19898, VMAuth authentication endpoint issue (requestHandler excessive authentication).
  • CVE-2026-61625, Path traversal vulnerability, CVSS 6.8 (medium severity).
  • Snappy Decoder DoS, Decoder vulnerability causing out-of-memory denial of service (GHSA-66jq-2c23-2xh5).

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • Free

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Users cite major storage cost reductions vs Prometheus stacks
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Simple single-binary start; users report easy implementation
  • Feature depth: 5/5. Metrics, logs, traces, anomaly detection covered
  • Support quality. No user evidence on support responsiveness
  • Security posture: 3/5. Security certifications achieved, but recurring CVEs need patching
  • ~$190/mo Cloud entry price Smallest VictoriaMetrics Cloud tier
  • Yes Free tier Open source, self-hosted core
  • 1B+ Adoption Docker pulls cited on G2

Pricing

Open Source

Free

  • Self-hosted single-node or cluster
  • Community support

Cloud

From ~$190/mo

  • Managed metrics and logs
  • Storage billed at $0.511/GB

Enterprise

Not disclosed

  • Extra cluster features
  • Expert support

Security

Actively maintained with published security certifications, but several 2025–2026 CVEs require prompt patching.

  • CVE-2026-19898VMAuth authentication endpoint issue (requestHandler excessive authentication).⁷
  • CVE-2026-61625Path traversal vulnerability, CVSS 6.8 (medium severity).
  • Snappy Decoder DoSDecoder vulnerability causing out-of-memory denial of service (GHSA-66jq-2c23-2xh5).⁶

Companies that use it

  • Spotify⁴
  • Groove X
Full analysis

Based on 25+ public sources; review snippets were truncated and no numeric ratings were found.

Prometheus-scale metrics/logs/traces DB with big storage cost cuts; overkill and ops-heavy for small teams.

Methodology

Based on 25+ public sources; review snippets were truncated and no numeric ratings were found.

Sources

  1. VictoriaMetrics GitHub repositorygithub.com
    official
  2. VictoriaMetrics Cloud billing docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
    official
  3. VictoriaMetrics Cloud product pagevictoriametrics.com
    official
  4. VictoriaMetrics case studies tagvictoriametrics.com
    official
  5. VictoriaMetrics security pagevictoriametrics.com
    security
  6. Snappy Decoder DoS advisory (GitHub)github.com
    security
  7. CVE-2026-19898 (VulDB)vuldb.com
    security
  8. VictoriaMetrics vs Prometheus (Reddit)reddit.com
    review
  9. Is the Victoria* stack too good to be true? (Reddit)reddit.com
    review
  10. VictoriaMetrics Reviews (G2)g2.com
    review
  11. VictoriaMetrics pricing review (CubeAPM)cubeapm.com
    review
  12. VictoriaMetrics co-founder interview (The Register)theregister.com
    news

Rate this review

Anonymous. You can change your vote.

Loading votes…

Comments

One queue. No nested comments. Give a display name first. Limit: 200 words per comment and 7 comments per day. You can edit or delete yours.

Save a name to write a comment.

0 / 200 words

No comments yet.