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InfluxDB vs VictoriaMetrics comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB
Ranking in Open Source Databases
7th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Non-Relational Databases (1st), Network Monitoring Software (13th), NoSQL Databases (7th)
VictoriaMetrics
Ranking in Open Source Databases
16th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
46th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of InfluxDB is 4.9%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VictoriaMetrics is 1.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
InfluxDB4.9%
VictoriaMetrics1.7%
Other93.4%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Mugeesh Husain - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
Time series data has been managed efficiently for IoT sensors but reporting still needs improvement
How InfluxDB can be improved is relevant since for Energy Box, we face certain issues. We have customers worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, but when we expanded to China two years ago, they indicated that they do not support the cloud version there. Our application is built on the cloud, which required us to create a separate application for Azure China, which was painful for us. The second issue involves frequent version changes. For example, we started with version one, transitioned to version two, and I heard they are considering InfluxDB version three, reverting to earlier practices. InfluxDB should improve without completely changing its approach. Now we have to redo our work for InfluxDB version three. Regarding needed improvements, the documentation is sufficient, but pricing presents a challenge. InfluxDB has standard pricing, which is acceptable for large companies. However, for startups in our position, they should provide special discounts so everyone can utilize it. The pricing should adapt as companies grow, which is a reasonable expectation.
Yess Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sre at Akamai Technologies
High-performance monitoring has reduced costs and now supports long-term observability
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be explained more clearly with real-world examples. Another improvement would be the UI and built-in visualization. VictoriaMetrics mainly relies on tools like Grafana, so having a more feature-rich native UI for basic monitoring and exploration would be helpful. On the integration side, while it works great with Prometheus and Grafana, expanding native integration with more tools like CI/CD platforms, alerting systems, and cloud-native services would be beneficial. In terms of support and troubleshooting, having more built-in diagnostics or guided debugging tools would be helpful. Right now, when issues happen, it often relies on logs and external tools. Also, for enterprise usage, strong features like RBAC, audit logs, and multi-tenant management would be enhanced. The improvements would include UI and built-in visualization. Also, query complexity can be a bit challenging for new users. Simplifying it or providing better guidance for query building would improve usability. Finally, enterprise features and ecosystem integration could be expanded further.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"InfluxDB has positively impacted Energy Box by being the best choice for our needs."
"InfluxDB has played a key role in enhancing system reliability and supporting our goal of delivering a seamless, high-quality product."
"My advice for others looking into using InfluxDB is to use it the same way I did, because it is really stable, easy and friendly to use, and it is a great product overall."
"Prior to InfluxDB usage, real-time data was not visualized and monitored, and after the introduction of InfluxDB in the entire framework, the organization is benefiting a lot in terms of monitoring and understanding performance data in real-time."
"The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring."
"InfluxDB positively impacts my organization because I have optimized my database storage, and by using powerful queries, I am able to find my data logs efficiently and also manage logging."
"Because of reduced downtime, we benefit greatly from receiving alerts in advance."
"As a time series database, it is very powerful and lightweight, and it can deal with heavy workloads very easily."
"VictoriaMetrics is an excellent solution for time-series monitoring with outstanding performance."
"We observed that RAM was reduced by around 70% and disk usage by 75%, while write speed increased 3x and query per second P95 latency became 7x faster."
 

Cons

"Customer support is fair enough but can be improved."
"I chose an 8 out of 10 because there is room for improvement, such as regarding backups and enhanced security through other types of authentication or encrypted data in TLS."
"InfluxDB can be improved in several ways. The Flux query language needs to be learned, but if there were something similar to SQL or previous options, it would be much easier for users without imposing a learning curve."
"Sometimes, when we write too much data within a minute, the data count becomes excessive, reaching perhaps 100,000 or 500,000 data points, and InfluxDB gives a timeout exception, which we must handle in our application."
"It is challenging to get long-running backups while running InfluxDB in a Microsoft Azure Kubernetes cluster."
"InfluxDB cannot be used for high-cardinality data. It's also difficult and time-consuming to write queries, and there are some issues with bulk API."
"In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version."
"The solution's UI can be more user-friendly."
"The main area that needs improvement in VictoriaMetrics is the documentation itself, as the support is adequate and the open-source project does provide replies within one to two days."
"One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is an open-source product."
"InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."
"InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."
"We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Transportation Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with InfluxDB?
If the dashboarding facility can be improved in terms of the visualization parameters and the amount of support available from the community, as well as having smarter alerts to send those alerts t...
What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?
My main use case for InfluxDB is to inject all my performance data and visualize it as a data source into Grafana. My data comes from JMeter from a plugin, which is inserting data to InfluxDB, and ...
What advice do you have for others considering InfluxDB?
It is good to start with InfluxDB to stabilize your data, visualize your data, and have the data stored on a time-series basis. I would recommend everyone to get into InfluxDB and start using it. T...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictoriaMetrics?
We did not require any license for VictoriaMetrics since we are using the open-source version, so the setup cost is what we incurred.
What needs improvement with VictoriaMetrics?
VictoriaMetrics is quite a good project and quite easy to use overall, though some documentation could be improved. The main area that needs improvement in VictoriaMetrics is the documentation itse...
What is your primary use case for VictoriaMetrics?
VictoriaMetrics is a time-series database that we use to handle a large volume of metrics coming from our application. We have multiple applications running, and we want to monitor everything to un...
 

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