Quick Start #

Congratulations! You are just a few clicks away from running your favorite monitoring stack without needing to worry about its maintenance, proper configuration, access protection, software updates or backups. We take care of that so you can focus on what matters.

The process is very simple: once you are done with registration, you’ll be all set to create a deployment and start writing and reading data right away.

Once the trial period ends, adding a payment method will let you continue using VictoriaMetrics Cloud.

Registration #

Start your registration process by visiting the Sign Up page. VictoriaMetrics Cloud supports registration via Sign up with Google Auth service or Email and password.

Creating deployments #

Creating VictoriaMetrics Cloud deployments is straightforward. Simply navigate to the Deployments page, click on Create, pick a tier, and the instance will be up & running in a few seconds.

To create your first deployment, click on Start using VictoriaMetrics Cloud.

Customize your deployment #

When creating a deployment, the following options are available:

After selecting your desired configuration, you are set to Create your deployment. Once created, it will remain for a few seconds in Provisioning status while spinning-up. You’ll also be notified via email once your deployment is ready to use.

Start writing and reading data #

After the transition from Provisioning to Running state, the VictoriaMetrics Cloud deployment is fully operational and ready to accept write and read requests. Writing and reading data in VictoriaMetrics Cloud is very simple. Many integrations are supported. Comprehensive examples and guides may be found in the integrations section.

To read or write data into VictoriaMetrics Cloud, you just need to point your application to your deployment’s Access endpoint and authorize with an Access token.

In brief, you will only need to perform 2 steps:

1. Obtain the Access endpoint for your deployment, which can be found in the Deployments overview. Typically, it looks like: https://<xxxx>.cloud.victoriametrics.com.
2. Create or reuse an Access token to allow any application to read or write data into VictoriaMetrics Cloud. Just pick a Name, select read and/or write Permission and Generate it. For every deployment, you can Generate tokens in the Access tokens tab.

Expand to discover examples for vmagent, Prometheus, Grafana or any other software

Examples for Reading and Writing data into VictoriaMetrics Cloud #

Apart from the mentioned integrations section, you can always check for quick and easy Copy-paste examples by clicking on the three dots of the desired Access Token and select Show examples.

It will provide snippets like:

vmagent #

./vmagent \
    --remoteWrite.url=https://<your_access_point>.cloud.victoriametrics.com/api/v1/write \
    --remoteWrite.bearerToken=********

Prometheus Configuration #

remote_write:
  - url: https://<your_access_point>.cloud-test.victoriametrics.com/api/v1/write
    authorization:
      credentials: ********

Grafana #

• Datasource url: https://<your_access_point>.cloud.victoriametrics.com
• Custom HTTP Header: Authorization
• Header value: **********

Modifying an existing deployment #

Remember that you can always add, remove or modify existing deployments by changing their configuration on the deployment’s page. It is important to know that downgrade for clusters is currently not available.

Additional configuration options may be found under Advanced Settings where the following additional parameters can be set:

• Deduplication defines interval when deployment leaves a single raw sample with the biggest timestamp per each discrete interval;
• Maintenance Window when deployment should start an upgrade process if needed;
• Settings to define VictoriaMetrics deployment flags, depending on your deployment type: Cluster or Single-node.

These updates require a deployment restart and may result in a short downtime for single-node deployments.

Adding a payment method #

VictoriaMetrics Cloud supports different payment options. You can found more information under the Billing section.

To add your payment method, navigate to the VictoriaMetrics Cloud Billing page, and go to the Payment methods tab. There, you’ll be able to add a payment method by:

1. Bank card: fill required fields
2. AWS Marketplace: link your AWS billing account via AWS Marketplace. This option will redirect you to the AWS VictoriaMetrics Cloud product page, where you can easily Subscribe to VictoriaMetrics Cloud. You’ll be redirected back to VictoriaMetrics Cloud Billing page by clicking on Set up your account.

If you add both payment methods, you can easily switch between them by selecting your preferred option.