VictoriaMetrics: The Single-Binary Time Series Database That Replaces Your Prometheus Stack — and the Enterprise Line You Should Know
VictoriaMetrics is a 17k-star, Apache-2.0 time series database and monitoring platform written in Go. This deep dive covers its single-binary architecture, MetricsQL, the community-versus-enterprise split, what high cardinality actually costs, and where your metrics go when you own the store.