GrafanavsVictoriaMetrics

Grafana helps engineering and operations teams monitor infrastructure, applications, and business metrics using open standards and an extensible plugin ecosystem. It is available as open source, managed cloud, and enterprise deployments.

VictoriaMetrics addresses time-series metrics storage. VictoriaMetrics is particularly interesting for Prometheus-style metrics at scale. Efficient storage and ingestion can help when retention requirements outgrow a basic monitoring stack. Its deployment modes and query behavior still need testing against the team's dashboards and alerting workloads. Storage efficiency does not replace capacity planning.