An SRE is deciding whether to continue using the Grafana Labs stack (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alloy) for a new observability infrastructure, weighing their past positive experience and familiarity...

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    "summary": "An SRE is deciding whether to continue using the Grafana Labs stack (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alloy) for a new observability infrastructure, weighing their past positive experience and familiarity against alternatives like VictoriaMetrics.",
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        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/sre/comments/1wr27dx/comment/pca0e8r/",
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        "author": "watson_x11",
        "excerpt": "I understand if you want to move away from Prometheus and Mimir for the metrics side.\nAlloy could still replace or consolidate several agents. For example, it can scrape Prometheus metrics, run exporters such as prometheus.exporter.unix, collect logs, receive OpenTelemetry traces, and forward everything to the appropriate backend.\nSo instead of thinking of it as moving away from LGTM entirely, you",
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        "author": "brightcarvings",
        "excerpt": "I think you need to have very clear reasons for moving and right now I don't see any value articulated in your post.\n\n Tech architecture conversations tend to often be what I call \"big changes to nowhere\". These are big, grand system or architecture changes that involve huge amounts of work but essentially leave teams in exactly the same situation they were before they started.\n\n If you could wave",
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        "excerpt": "Since this is greenfield, I'd give VictoriaMetrics a small pilot rather than pick it on the promise of lower RAM. Your familiarity with Mimir is worth something too, especially while the systems have no monitoring.\n\n Keep the comparison narrow: the metrics backend, not a simultaneous redesign of logs and traces. Alloy's prometheus.remote_write can send the same samples to multiple endpoints, so yo",
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        "excerpt": "I'd say, it depends on your time and willingness to learn something new. It doesn't seem like you are having any techincal or resource constrain. It more seems like fear of missing out)\n\n If you have time to experiment - go with VictoriaMetrics. You will learn new technology and potentially save some resources for the company you work for. With experience of yours, you will have opportunity to com",
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        "excerpt": "One thing to note is that VictoriaMetrics will silently return partial query results. Mimir will error if any TSDB block is not available in the result set.",
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        "excerpt": "In terms of metrics scraping, Alloy can do everything Prometheus can. Alloy collects metrics then sends them to a prometheus remote_write API-compatible backend which can be prometheus, or mimir, or victoriametrics, or other.\n\n A word about victoriametrics, none of the victoria stack supports object storage backend yet. Object storage is on the roadmap for victorialogs then it will be ported to vi",
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        "excerpt": "I'd also take a look at Signoz.",
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        "excerpt": "Promethus itself is t a great long term metric store if you have a lot of metric series.\n\n Victoriametrics works a lot better if you are ok with giving it a lot of fast disk.\n\n I'm about to open source a clickhous backed o11y suite with a lot of free options you have to pay for. I run a devops slack group so if you want to talk o11y or give my tool a try I'll offer 100% free support and help you g",
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