Quick Start⌗

Victoria Metrics

  • An easy way to run VictoriaMetrics locally is to build from the source code as there’re lots of vm binaries like vmselect, vmstorage, vminsert, etc. to download, and all of them are maintained in the same repository, and Makefile is quite straightforward.
git clone git@github.com:VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics.git
make victoria-metrics
mv /bin/victoria-metrics /usr/bin
  • Run VictoriaMetrics With Systemd
[Unit]
Description="Victoria Metrics Single"
Documentation=https://https://docs.victoriametrics.com/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple

ExecStart=/usr/bin/victoria-metrics-prod \
        -storageDataPath=/data/vm \
        -httpListenAddr=:8428 \
        -promscrape.config=/etc/prometheus/scrape.yml
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s SIGTERM $MAINPID

Restart=on-failure
SuccessExitStatus=0
LimitNOFILE=65536
StandardOutput=/var/log/vm/out.log
StandardError=/var/log/vm/err.log
SyslogIdentifier=prometheus

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Storage⌗

On Disk Layout⌗

./data
├── big
│   ├── 2024_01
│   │   ├── 17A6101707C91B08
│   │   │   ├── index.bin
│   │   │   ├── metadata.json
│   │   │   ├── metaindex.bin
│   │   │   ├── timestamps.bin
│   │   │   └── values.bin
│   ├── 2024_02
│   ├── ...
│   └── snapshots
│       ├── 20240109092239-179E85E399D5EFDA
│       │   ├── 2023_12
│       │   └── 2024_01
│       └── 20240111104529-179E85E399D5EFDB
│           ├── 2023_12
│           └── 2024_01
├── flock.lock
└── small
    ├── 2024_01
    │   ├── 17A6101707CC58EF
    │   │   ├── index.bin
    │   │   ├── metadata.json
    │   │   ├── metaindex.bin
    │   │   ├── timestamps.bin
    │   │   └── values.bin
    └── snapshots
        ├── 20240109092239-179E85E399D5EFDA
        │   ├── 2023_12
        │   └── 2024_01
        └── 20240111104529-179E85E399D5EFDB
            ├── 2023_12
            └── 2024_01

For details, see doc

Writing Data Flow⌗

VM vs Prometheus (Disk) TBD

Referrence⌗