VictoriaMetrics: When Prometheus Gets Too Hungry for Your Hardware

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I love Prometheus. I’ve said as much before. But there’s a moment in the life of a growing homelab where the love turns slightly conditional, and that moment usually arrives when you check htop and find Prometheus quietly chewing through two gigabytes of RAM to remember some numbers about your fridge thermometer. It’s not that Prometheus is badly written — it’s that it was designed for ephemeral, short-retention monitoring of large fleets, and it makes memory and disk trade-offs that suit a data centre better than a fanless box in a cupboard.

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VictoriaMetrics: When Prometheus Gets Too Hungry for Your Hardware