VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is a fast open-source time-series database and monitoring solution. It exposes a Prometheus-compatible HTTP query API, a wide range of ingestion endpoints (Prometheus remote-write, InfluxDB Line Protocol, DataDog v1/v2, Graphite, OpenTSDB, CSV, JSON, native), a federation endpoint and admin endpoints. The commercial Enterprise edition adds anomaly detection (vmanomaly), downsampling, multi-tenancy and other features.

VictoriaMetrics publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Admin API, Export API, Import API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Database, Time Series, Monitoring, Open-Source, and Prometheus.

VictoriaMetrics’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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32.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try

9 APIs

Database Time Series Monitoring Open-Source Prometheus PromQLMetricsQLObservability

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 32.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 5.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Victoriametrics Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

EnterpriseTrial

EnterpriseTrial

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: victoriametrics
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoriametrics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: VictoriaMetrics
kind: company
description: VictoriaMetrics is a fast open-source time-series database and monitoring solution. It exposes a Prometheus-compatible
  HTTP query API, a wide range of ingestion endpoints (Prometheus remote-write, InfluxDB Line Protocol, DataDog v1/v2, Graphite,
  OpenTSDB, CSV, JSON, native), a federation endpoint and admin endpoints. The commercial Enterprise edition adds anomaly
  detection (vmanomaly), downsampling, multi-tenancy and other features.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/victoriametrics.png
tags:
- Database
- Time Series
- Monitoring
- Open-Source
- Prometheus
- PromQL
- MetricsQL
- Observability
tags_raw:
- Database
- Time-Series
- Monitoring
- Open Source
- Prometheus
- PromQL
- MetricsQL
- Observability
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: victoriametrics:prometheus-query
  name: VictoriaMetrics Prometheus-Compatible Query API
  description: Prometheus-compatible HTTP API for instant and range queries (PromQL / MetricsQL), label discovery, series
    search, metadata and TSDB status. Single-node default port 8428; in cluster mode served by vmselect on port 8481 under
    /select/<accountID>/prometheus/.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - REST
  - Prometheus
  - PromQL
  - MetricsQL
  - Query
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  - type: PromQLCompat
    url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#metricsql
  - url: graphql/victoriametrics-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: victoriametrics:ingestion
  name: VictoriaMetrics Ingestion APIs
  description: Multi-protocol ingestion — Prometheus remote-write (/api/v1/write), InfluxDB line protocol (/write or /insert/0/influx/write),
    DataDog v1 (/datadog/api/v1/series) and v2 (/datadog/api/v2/series), Graphite (TCP 2003 or /graphite endpoints), OpenTSDB
    (TCP 4242 or /api/put), CSV/JSON/ native /api/v1/import.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-time-series-data
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - REST
  - Ingestion
  - Remote Write
  - InfluxDB
  - Datadog
  - Graphite
  - OpenTSDB
  tags_raw:
  - REST
  - Ingestion
  - Remote Write
  - InfluxDB
  - DataDog
  - Graphite
  - OpenTSDB
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-time-series-data
- aid: victoriametrics:admin
  name: VictoriaMetrics Admin / Federation API
  description: Administrative endpoints for time-series deletion (/api/v1/admin/tsdb/ delete_series), data export/import (/api/v1/export,
    /api/v1/import in various formats), Prometheus federation (/federate), TSDB stats and metadata.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-delete-time-series
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - REST
  - Admin
  - Federation
  - Export
- aid: victoriametrics:vmanomaly
  name: VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (vmanomaly)
  description: Enterprise-only ML-driven anomaly detection. Reads via Prometheus query API, writes anomaly scores back via
    Prometheus remote-write. Multivariate models, confidence intervals and HA deployment supported.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/anomaly-detection/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8490
  tags:
  - Enterprise
  - Anomaly Detection
  - ML
  - Prometheus
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/anomaly-detection/
- aid: victoriametrics:victoriametrics-admin-api
  name: VictoriaMetrics Admin API
  description: Administrative operations
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - Admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoriametrics-admin-api-openapi.yml
- aid: victoriametrics:victoriametrics-export-api
  name: VictoriaMetrics Export API
  description: Raw sample export endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - Export
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoriametrics-export-api-openapi.yml
- aid: victoriametrics:victoriametrics-import-api
  name: VictoriaMetrics Import API
  description: Data ingestion endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - Import
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoriametrics-import-api-openapi.yml
- aid: victoriametrics:victoriametrics-query-api
  name: VictoriaMetrics Query API
  description: Prometheus-compatible query endpoints (PromQL / MetricsQL)
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - Query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoriametrics-query-api-openapi.yml
- aid: victoriametrics:victoriametrics-third-party-api
  name: VictoriaMetrics Third-Party API
  description: Endpoints compatible with other monitoring formats
  humanURL: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples/
  baseURL: http://<host>:8428
  tags:
  - Third-Party
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/victoriametrics-third-party-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/victoriametrics-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/victoriametrics-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/victoriametrics-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/victoriametrics-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/victoriametrics
- type: Website
  url: https://victoriametrics.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
- type: EnterpriseTrial
  url: https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/trial/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/victoriametrics-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/victoriametrics-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/victoriametrics-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://victoriametrics.com/partners/index.html
- url: https://victoriametrics.com/index.xml
  type: Blog
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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