The connected 5G and IOT world is leading to exponential growth of time-series data resulting in Observability challenges of scale and stability. Prometheus and Victoria Metrics are both prevalent open-source time-series databases (TSDBs) that share many similarities, but also possess distinct characteristics resulting in considerable efforts for designers to pick one over another for telemetry use-cases.
This talk will help demystify the selection of solution based on the real-world experience sharing from the 5G Telco high-cardinality use-case. It compares Prometheus and Victoria Metrics commonalities and differences on key performance metrics such as dimensioning, query language, latency, IOPS, memory footprint, and ingestion scalability and retention policies.
Our experience sharing and cost-benefit analysis of these two observability solutions will help audience to pick the best choice for their solution and to consider ways to implement newer use-cases