VictoriaMetrics

What it is for

VictoriaMetrics is a hosted metrics-logs-traces desk: you open Logs Query Overview, and Cloud starts at $200 / month (30-day $200 credit, no card). Use it when the job is logs and series you size by capacity tier, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official VictoriaMetrics Cloud Logs Query Overview (302,181 total logs, 1,007.27 logs/sec, 17 streams, k8s.deployment.name cardinality table, frontend-proxy / product-catalog hits) from the quick-start still — not a pricing card. The field tables themselves are ops of Logs. Cloud bills capacity tiers + GB, not a chat seat.

Key features

• VictoriaLogs — a log query desk with streams and field cardinality (cover still; pricing). One log. Cover 302k hits and _stream grouping are ops of this. Initial Cloud tier prints $200 / month (800 logs/sec, 0.8 MB/s ingest, 50 new streams / 24h, 4.6 GB/sec read).
• VictoriaMetrics — a time-series store you use as managed Prometheus (pricing). A series, not a log line. Initial tier $200 / month (500k active series, 16.6k datapoints/sec). Grafana datasource sits here.
• VictoriaTraces — a span store for OpenTelemetry traces (pricing Managed VictoriaTraces). A span, not a metric. Printed ingest lines match 800 spans/sec / 0.8 MB/s on the Cloud page we fetched.
• Alerting — rules that fire when a query matches (pricing Alerting). An alert, not a Query Overview run. Included with every Cloud deployment.
• Self-host — Apache-2.0 VictoriaMetrics / VictoriaLogs / VictoriaTraces you run yourself (repo). A deploy, not a Cloud tier. Cloud is the hosted $200 floor; self-host is $0 on your metal.

Capacity-tier pickers and the Create deployment dialog are ops / the meter. vmagent and the CLI are install. Anomaly Detection is a separate SKU. External traffic $0.09 / GB; storage $0.511 / GB / month.

Who it's for

Best fit: observability teams who will burn the 30-day $200 Cloud credit on a first Logs Query Overview, then stay on the $200 / month initial Metrics or Logs tier — or self-host the Apache-2.0 core at $0 when they do not want managed capacity.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from victoriametrics.com/products/cloud. The page prints From $200 / month and Free for 30 days. New Cloud accounts get $200 in credits valid 30 days. No card to start the trial.

• Cloud (Metrics) — from $200 / month. Initial tier: 500k active time series, 16.6k datapoints/sec.
• Cloud (Logs) — from $200 / month. Initial tier: 800 logs/sec ingested, 0.8 MB/s, 50 new streams / 24h, 4.6 GB/sec read.
• Meters — external traffic $0.09 / GB. Storage $0.511 / GB / month. API calls: no extra charge on the FAQ we fetched.
• Self-host — Apache-2.0 core $0. Enterprise self-host is talk-to-sales.
• Enterprise / PoC — custom. Do not invent an Enterprise dollar.

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Limitations / costs

• The $200 credit is 30 days, not forever Free. After the trial, the initial Metrics or Logs tier is $200 / month.
• Logs and Metrics are separate $200 floors if you run both backends.
• A capacity-tier desk, not an eBPF sensor in your cluster. For groundcover’s $0 / $30-per-host BYOC see groundcover. For Dash0’s span/log meters see Dash0.

Alternatives

• groundcover — eBPF traces in your cloud when you want $0 / 12-hour Free, not a $200 capacity tier.
• Dash0 — hosted OTel APM when you want per-million span/log dollars, not VictoriaMetrics tiers.
• ClickHouse — a general OLAP warehouse when you want SQL over events, not VictoriaLogs streams.

Official tutorial

Official VictoriaMetrics channel video: Welcome to VictoriaMetrics — An Introduction (oEmbed author: VictoriaMetrics). First-party intro; the Cloud Logs Query Overview still is the cover.

Written path: victoriametrics.com/products/cloud plus the Logs Overview still.

Website

https://victoriametrics.com

Repository

https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official VictoriaMetrics Cloud Logs Query Overview from the docs still. Dollars checked on victoriametrics.com/products/cloud (Cloud from $200/mo; 30-day $200 credit; Metrics 500k series; Logs 800/sec; traffic $0.09/GB; storage $0.511/GB-mo). Tutorial oEmbed author: VictoriaMetrics.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.