• About
• Use Case
• Contributing
• VictoriaMetrics documentation
• Requirements
• Create cluster and deploy applications
  • VictoriaMetrics Cluster Mode
  • VictoriaLogs Cluster Mode
  • argocd
  • ingress-nginx
  • cert-manager
  • kube-prometheus-stack
  • kube-pires
• VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs Architecture
• Tools used
• Request workflow
• Uninstall
• Maintainers
• License

About

Use Case

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective and scalable time series database. It can be used as a long-term remote storage for Prometheus.

I worked at Sensedia for almost 5 years and used VIctoriaMetrics in production collecting metrics from over 100 clusters (EKS and GKE) running hundreds of pods on each cluster and going through 5 Black Friday without downtime in the monitoring stack.

Details of this use case can be found in the following links:

• [en-US] https://victoriametrics.com/case-studies/sensedia/
• [en-US] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/casestudies/#sensedia
• [en-US] https://nordicapis.com/api-monitoring-with-prometheus-grafana-alertmanager-and-victoriametrics/
• [es] https://www.sensedia.com.es/post/seguimiento-con-prometheus-grafana-alertmanager-and-victoriametrics
• [pt-BR] https://www.sensedia.com.br/post/monitoramento-de-aplicacoes-com-prometheus-grafana-alertmanager-e-victoriametrics
• [pt-BR] https://speakerdeck.com/aeciopires/monitoramento-de-aplicacoes-com-prometheus-grafana-alertmanager-e-victoriametrics
• Slides (pt-BR): https://speakerdeck.com/aeciopires/monitoramento-de-aplicacoes-com-prometheus-grafana-alertmanager-e-victoriametrics

I also contribute to the VictoriaMetrics helm chart:

• https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/helm-charts
• https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/helm-charts/graphs/contributors

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md file.

VictoriaMetrics documentation

See LEARNING_VICTORIAMETRICS.md file.

Requirements

Install all packages and binaries following this tutorial.

Create cluster and deploy applications

Create kind cluster and install helm apps using make command:

cd learning-victoriametrics
make up

Actions performed:

• Check requirements
• Create kind Kubernetes cluster
• Install helm apps: MetalLB, VictoriaMetrics (cluster mode), VictoriaLogs (cluster mode), ingress-nginx, certificate-manager, kube-pires and kube-stack-prometheus
• Insert new entry in /etc/hosts (Linux/MacOS)

VictoriaMetrics Cluster Mode

See the helm-apps/victoriametrics-cluster-mode/README.md file to configure VictoriaMetrics cluster mode.

VictoriaLogs Cluster Mode

See the helm-apps/victorialogs-cluster-mode/README.md file to configure VictoriaLogs cluster mode.

argocd

See the helm-apps/argocd/README.md

ingress-nginx

See the helm-apps/ingress-nginx/README.md

cert-manager

See the helm-apps/cert-manager/README.md

kube-prometheus-stack

See the helm-apps/kube-stack-prometheus/README.md

kube-pires

See the helm-apps/kube-pires/README.md

VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs Architecture

Tools used

Request workflow

Uninstall

Destroy Kind cluster and uninstall apps:

cd learning-victoriametrics
make down

Maintainers

• Aécio dos Santos Pires (linkedin.com/in/aeciopires)

License

GPL-3.0 Aécio dos Santos Pires