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Comparing self-hosted prices with managed solutions isn't exactly apples to apples.

But if you do compare, VictoriaMetrics cloud for 3Mil active series and twice higher ingestion rate (100K samples/s or 30s scrape interval) will cost you ~$1k/month + storage costs.

See https://victoriametrics.cloud/#estimate-cost

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Agreed. VictoriaMetrics is indeed a very compelling offering. The disk-less approach is significantly simpler to operate, which I think is the biggest difference. Running opendata's version yourself has fewer moving pieces, and standard operations become trivial because no single service retains permanent state.

It's a meaningful change in calculation of running yourself vs paying someone to do it for you IMO.

anecdotally I've heard confirmations of the challenge of running VictoriaMetrics clusters at scale. they're way better than Cortex/Thanos and they've built a pretty awesome product but still are a pretty significant operational burden.

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