How VictoriaMetrics Cuts Observability Costs From $65,000 to $1,700 a Month With an Open-Source-First Stack

Roman Khavronenko, co-founder and Engineering Manager, and Aliaksandr Valialkin, co-founder and CTO at VictoriaMetrics, explain why telemetry volumes have exploded over the past decade and how their open-source-first, Apache 2.0 approach keeps observability costs predictable, showing the same workload running at $1,700 a month on VictoriaMetrics Cloud versus $65,000 on Grafana Cloud and $19,000 on Google Cloud.

They also discuss how AI agents are both generating and consuming telemetry, and why a self-bootstrapped, investor-free model lets them commit to never changing their license.

If your observability bill is climbing as fast as your data, this one is for you.