[nyarlathotep] Switch from promscale to VictoriaMetrics #305
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Promscale was discontinued early last year, and around the beginning of this year developed the irritating problem of frequently dropping data, which led to me looking at the dashboard less and less often. I tried using the prometheus backfilling tool, but couldn't get it to work - it apparently loaded everything without error, but the metrics just weren't there. It also took 10m+ to load my historic hledger data, which is far worse than the few seconds promscale took. Today I found VictoriaMetrics, which falls into the same sweet spot as promscale: it has an API that supports deleting timeseries and loading data with arbitrary timestamps, and supports the prometheus query language. It works really well so far, is faster for big queries than promscale was, and I've got my dashboard working again!
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Promscale was discontinued early last year, and around the beginning of this year developed the irritating problem of frequently dropping data, which led to me looking at the dashboard less and less often.
I tried using the prometheus backfilling tool, but couldn't get it to work - it apparently loaded everything without error, but the metrics just weren't there. It also took 10m+ to load my historic hledger data, which is far worse than the few seconds promscale took.
Today I found VictoriaMetrics, which falls into the same sweet spot as promscale: it has an API that supports deleting timeseries and loading data with arbitrary timestamps, and supports the prometheus query language. It works really well so far, is faster for big queries than promscale was, and I've got my dashboard working again!