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VictoriaMetrics Cloud continues to evolve as the most efficient, scalable and open platform in the observability landscape. In our last Q1 update blogpost, we shared new features such as seamless OpenTelemetry integrations, new Organizations support, and improvements in the Explore UI and APIs.
This time we wanted to take a minute to showcase how we’re taking the interoperability journey very seriously.
Integrations in VictoriaMetrics Cloud
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VictoriaMetrics has always focused on openness and interoperability. Whether you’re collecting data from Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Graphite, or pushing metrics through any observability stack — we don’t force any tools on you. This unopinionated approach truly ensures you avoid vendor lock-in and fit VictoriaMetrics into your existing workflows.
The newly published integrations documentation demonstrates just how easy it is to integrate your systems. Once you select a deployment, all the instructions — from sending metrics to visualizing them — are generated for you with the correct URL and token.
To get started, all you need is a URL and an Access Token.
All integrations come with interactive, step-by-step guides available in the VictoriaMetrics Cloud Console, tailored for your real deployments. This includes copy-paste-ready snippets with all required settings in place.
You can check it out directly in our revamped integrations documentation and experience how, with a couple of clicks in the VictoriaMetrics Cloud Console you can get started with real-world integration snippets customized for your deployments.
VictoriaMetrics Cloud supports integration across the entire observability lifecycle:
As already mentioned, if you are curious about how easy it is to integrate with VictoriaMetrics Cloud, we encourage you to visit our docs to experience by yourself. However, here’s a brief example of what it takes for one of the most used integrations: Monitoring Kubernetes via the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Stack: a Helm chart that brings together all the key components to collect and push metrics to VictoriaMetrics Cloud if you are starting from zero.
This stack includes:
<DEPLOYMENT_ENDPOINT_URL>
and <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>
.
Integrating Kubernetes with VictoriaMetrics Cloud
kubectl create secret generic vmauth-creds \
--from-literal=VMAUTH_TOKEN='<YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>'
values.yaml
with your endpoint and credentials:vmagent:
remoteWrite:
- url: https://<DEPLOYMENT_ENDPOINT_URL>/api/v1/write
headers:
Authorization: "Bearer $VMAUTH_TOKEN"
helm repo add victoria-metrics https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/
helm upgrade --install vm-stack victoria-metrics/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack \
-f values.yaml
Both the endpoint and Access Token are already filled for you in VictoriaMetrics Cloud at the interactive Kubernetes integration guide.
After that, your cluster metrics will be flowing into VictoriaMetrics Cloud, with dashboards and alerts ready to go!
But this is not the only way to ingest Kubernetes metrics! As highlighted in our Q1 blog post, VictoriaMetrics is fully committed to OpenTelemetry as a first-class citizen in our observability stack.
You can monitor your Kubernetes cluster using OpenTelemetry as well, either via the Helm chart or the OpenTelemetry Operator. Explore our OpenTelemetry integration docs or try the guided setup in the Cloud Console.
Integrating Kubernetes using OpenTelemetry with VictoriaMetrics Cloud
Last reminder (promised!): as every integration with VictoriaMetrics Cloud, you’ll only need a URL and an Access Token to connect your data source or visualization tool — no guesswork needed!
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Thanks for being part of our community! We hope these improvements make your integration journey smoother than ever. As always, sign up to try everything for free with $200 credits — no credit card required.
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