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 (DIR) Post #AdDPxLs6DZHCz6woqm by jerry@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-26T22:34:36Z
       
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       I should probably have checked how many grafana dashboards use influxdb before going through the pain of setting up and integrating influxdb. Back to Prometheus I go.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQ2yxUJxxNet9YCe by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-12-26T22:37:09.991608Z
       
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       @jerry use VictoriaMetrics as your backend and you get both (plus an extended PromQL -- sometimes straight up fixes for stupid mistakes they made in the language)Plus its resource usage is like a tenth of Influx or Prometheus
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQE3hd1STRYe15MW by jerry@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-26T22:38:28Z
       
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       @feld thanks. I’ll take a look.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQE4WfxfJ66xtqvg by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-12-26T22:39:29.750579Z
       
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       @jerry You won't be disappointed. It's the Swiss Army knife of time series databases. Brilliant developer, very professional
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQdXbuxkiLYTUpou by jerry@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-26T22:42:03Z
       
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       @feld it will work as a backend for dashboards written for Prometheus?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQdYPtxuhG3UskjI by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-12-26T22:44:07.585994Z
       
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       @jerry Yes I use it for that.I haven't verified if you can also add it as a backend for Influx but I believe you can as well, and then both types of dashboards work and there's a single service you have to maintain that wears two masks 🎭
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDQuVrYiKJ13cuBFo by feld@bikeshed.party
       2023-12-26T22:47:12.252799Z
       
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       @jerry If you're deploying Prometheus to act as a scraper on servers you can use their vmagent as a replacement with Prometheus config compatibility (minus a couple lines they tell you to remove) and you get a lower footprint service that does the same thing. Plus the binary vmagent is like 12MB vs Prometheus 100MB+ lol
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDUizOnTPCd0IDF1E by alex@feed.yopp.me
       2023-12-26T23:29:22Z
       
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       @jerry @feld yes! It even uses pretty much the same scrape config. In most cases it just a drop-in replacement for prometheus
       
 (DIR) Post #AdDVN7gC6bReGjUGYa by deliverator@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-26T23:36:54Z
       
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       @feld @jerry very happy to hear positive things about Victoria metrics! Our initial testing with it was very promising from a resource usage perspective in terms of space, CPU and RAM. Moving away from a collectd/influx stack, looking forward to being able to have more than ~3 labels in Prometheus land!