Benchmark

This blog post is the first in the series of the blog posts based on the talk about ‘How to reduce expenses on monitoring’, stackconf 2023. It is about open-source instruments and techniques from theVictoriaMetrics ecosystem for improving cost-efficiency of monitoring.

One of the latest benchmarks we made was ‘VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second’. While the fact of such scale for VictoriaMetrics is noteworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that load is usually overlooked. In this blog post I’ll explain in more details the challenge of running such benchmarks.

A Helm chart for pushing node_exporter metrics to Prometheus-compatible systems via remote_write protocol