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Victoriametrics Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for VictoriaMetrics. The dominant cost surfaces are (a) the underlying infrastructure for self-hosted Community/Enterprise (cloud VMs, attached SSD/EBS, network egress) and (b) VictoriaMetrics Enterprise license or VictoriaMetrics Cloud subscription metered by ingestion rate / active series. There is no per-query or per-MAU charge.

Victoriametrics Finops is the FinOps profile for VictoriaMetrics on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 6 billable meters, billed in USD, on a annual (license) + monthly (cloud / infra) cycle, and pricing category license + underlying infra or managed subscription.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Database, Time-Series, Monitoring, Open Source, and Prometheus.

Category: Observability / Time-Series Pricing: License + Underlying Infra OR Managed Subscription Billing: Annual (license) + Monthly (cloud / infra) FOCUS v1.3
DatabaseTime-SeriesMonitoringOpen SourcePrometheusFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
VictoriaMetrics
PricingUnit
ingestion-rate / active-series
ProviderName
VictoriaMetrics
PublisherName
VictoriaMetrics
ServiceCategory
Observability
ServiceName
VictoriaMetrics

Meters

enterprise_license
Unit: license-year
Annual VictoriaMetrics Enterprise license fee.
cloud_ingestion_rate
Unit: samples_per_second
Datapoints ingested per second on VictoriaMetrics Cloud (managed).
cloud_active_series
Unit: series
Active time series stored on VictoriaMetrics Cloud.
compute_instance_hours
Unit: vm-hour
Underlying cloud VM hours running vminsert / vmselect / vmstorage / vmagent.
storage_gb_month
Unit: GB-month
Block storage attached to vmstorage.
network_egress
Unit: GB
Egress bytes from VictoriaMetrics to consumers (Grafana, alerts, federation).

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