Evaluating Backend Options For Prometheus Metrics

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:49:03 +0000

I’ve recently been looking at consolidating metrics from multiple Prometheus servers into one horizontally scalable central store. There’s plenty of open source options out there, with the most notable being Thanos, Cortex (now Mimir), Victoria Metrics, M3DB, etc.

I’ve managed to narrow my search down to Mimir and Victoria Metrics. The main reason for going with these two is that they offer support for more metric formats than just Prometheus, and while this isn’t a requirement, for my specific use case it’s a nice to have. Mimir has major support behind it through it’s creator, Grafana Labs, as well as the open source community surrounding Grafana and it’s umbrella of products. While Victoria Metrics isn’t quite as known as Grafana Labs or Mimir, it has plenty of open source support behind it, and an Enterprise offering there to maintain and build upon it.

Victoria Metrics on Techetio

Evaluating Backend Options For Prometheus Metrics