VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs and VictoriaTraces: What Prometheus Left Out, and the Stack Built Around It
VictoriaMetrics started as a remote storage backend for Prometheus and grew into a full monitoring stack. What Prometheus deliberately does not do, why two HA Prometheus replicas are not a cluster, how VictoriaMetrics splits Prometheus's jobs into components and keeps long-term data without object storage, how VictoriaLogs compares with Loki and VictoriaTraces with Tempo and Jaeger, what else the project ships, and when it is the right choice.