VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams

nklmilojevic 1 year ago |

Amazing product. We use VictoriaMetrics for quite a while, and previously used Loki and our custom Clickhouse/Vector approach for logs and we have switched to VictoriaLogs. It is much better and faster than Loki, same goes with custom CH/Vector thing we had. Kudos to the team, we are waiting for VictoriaTraces to switch Tempo instance to it for opentelemetry stuff.

CubsFan1060 1 year ago | |

Can you talk a little bit about your Victoria Logs setup? About how many logs are you ingesting and what kind of sizing do you have on your setup?

nklmilojevic 1 year ago | | |

Sure thing!

Ingested logs 24h: 428 Mil Ingested bytes 24h: 625GB Inser req/s: 6k/s

8vCPU, 16GB mem. Running standard-rwo PVC on GCP.

We have a couple of projects like this with similar usage and similar machine sizing.

Still running vmlogs-single, and we will until we see a need to move to vmlogs-cluster version.

camel_gopher 1 year ago | | |

That sounds like a lot of resources provisioned for 6k/s. 625GB/24hr is a small footprint.

CubsFan1060 1 year ago | | |

I would have said it sounded pretty good. What technologies are you comparing it against, out of curiosity.

camel_gopher 1 year ago | | |

ClickHouse

CubsFan1060 1 year ago | | |

That seems pretty good. Do you have any sort of HA solution?

PaywallBuster 1 year ago | | |

personally Hetzner SX295 that has 14x 22 TB on a ZFS setup

It ingests 70k lines per second without a sweat

reads are just as fast

UncleFullstack 1 year ago |

Victoria logs is awesome and has put me at odds with my new devops hire who hates it and insists that Dynatrace can do the same thing for only $$$ a month. I tried using the their front end and it’s horrible. The API for Victoria is awesome and it’s fast.

paffdragon 1 year ago |

I use it in docker on a NAS - VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Grafana - low resource usage, fast, so far zero issues.

pphysch 1 year ago |

We recently dropped-in VictoriaLogs for an old rsyslog setup. Extremely easy to deploy and admin, integrates nicely with Grafana. Definitely recommend doing this and moving to structured logging formats if you aren't already / are hesitant about the complexity of Elastic stack, etc.

chupasaurus 1 year ago | |

There is no complexity in Elastic stack, only expensive footguns /s

ProofHouse 1 year ago |

I’m actually working on something right now where this can be extremely useful to me and I didn’t know about VictoriaLogs was using Loki. I wonder if anyone knows if there are other better alternatives or how this stacks up?

yla92 1 year ago | |

> VictoriaLogs was using Loki

Someone can correct me if I am wrong here - I don't think it's the case tho. Especially, it's competing against Loki and Elastic

https://itnext.io/why-victorialogs-is-a-better-alternative-t...

dan-robertson 1 year ago | | |

I think the GP intended to put some punctuation between ‘victorialogs’ and ‘was’

dengolius 364 days ago | |

> VictoriaLogs was using Loki

Where was this mentioned?