VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective, and scalable monitoring solution and time series database, used as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus.

The victoria-metrics role performs various tasks related to Helm chart deployment, reset, and validation.

Tip

Role deployments are performed at global level, using the Provisioning playbook. Upgrades can be performed at role level — see the instructions detailed below.

Role Tasks

See the related role tasks listed below.

Facts

Ansible facts — see facts.yaml for details.

Main

Main role related tasks — see main.yaml for details.

Reset

Reset related tasks — see reset.yaml for details.

Upgrade

Upgrade related tasks — see upgrade.yaml for details. Run the following command to perform a role upgrade:


ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass --tags=victoria-metrics upgrade.yaml

Validation

Validation related tasks — see validation.yaml for details. Run the following command to perform all role related validation tasks:


ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass --tags=victoria-metrics validation.yaml

Role Templates

See the related role templates listed below.

Tip

Perform a role validation to visualize all rendered templates and variables.

Helm Chart

Helm chart values template — see values.j2 for details.

Configuration

AlertManager — Helm chart values template used for additional AlertManager configuration rules, see config_alertmanager.j2 for details. User-defined alerts can also be implemented — see node_health.j2 for details.

Credentials

Kubernetes Secret resource template containing the user credentials — see credentials.j2 for details.

Role Variables

Important

A role upgrade is required in order to apply any changes related to role variables.

See the related role variables, defined in the main.yaml defaults file. Review the README.md file for additional details.

Tip

Use Renovate to automate release pull requests and keep dependencies up-to-date.