Victoria Metrics AI Prompts
21 free, production-ready Victoria Metrics AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- Victoria Metrics Advanced
VictoriaMetrics Downsampling ROI and Storage Cost Forecasting Prompt
Model the dollar and disk impact of downsampling and retention changes in VictoriaMetrics — projecting storage growth, per-tier savings, and payback — so cost decisions are made on arithmetic instead of vibes.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics MetricsQL Slow-Query Profiling Prompt
Profile and triage slow or expensive MetricsQL queries in production — using top_queries, active_queries, query traces, and TSDB status — to find which queries hurt vmselect and why, before rewriting them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics vmagent Scrape Target Debugging Prompt
Systematically diagnose down, missing, or flapping scrape targets in vmagent — walking service discovery, relabeling drops, and scrape failures — so metrics stop silently disappearing from VictoriaMetrics.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics Capacity Planning and Resource Sizing Prompt
Build a capacity model for VictoriaMetrics — deriving CPU, RAM, disk, and node counts from ingestion rate, active series, churn, and retention, with headroom for query load and growth.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics Single-Node vs Cluster Scaling Prompt
Decide when to move from single-node VictoriaMetrics to the cluster (vminsert/vmselect/vmstorage) topology, size the storage tier, and scale it out safely with replication and rerouting understood.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics Deduplication and HA Pairs Prompt
Configure deduplication for highly-available Prometheus/vmagent replica pairs writing to VictoriaMetrics — setting the right dedup interval and label strategy so redundant samples collapse cleanly without gaps or double-counting.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics Downsampling and Retention Policy Prompt
Design tiered retention and downsampling in VictoriaMetrics Enterprise — mapping metric classes to resolutions and retention windows to cut disk and speed long-range queries without losing what matters.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Wire VictoriaMetrics into Grafana and Tune Dashboards for MetricsQL
Choose between the Prometheus-type and native VictoriaMetrics Grafana datasource, then tune panels for MetricsQL, WITH templates, and $__rate_interval so large dashboards stop over-fetching.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics High Cardinality and Churn Control Prompt
Find and cut the labels driving cardinality explosion and high churn rate in VictoriaMetrics — using cardinality explorer, relabeling drops, and streaming aggregation — before they OOM vmstorage.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Tune the VictoriaMetrics Ingestion Path and Diagnose Slow Inserts
Diagnose and tune the vmagent/vminsert ingestion path — insert concurrency, remote-write queues, disk buffering, and backpressure — when writes lag, queues fill, or pending data grows.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics MetricsQL Query Optimization Prompt
Audit and rewrite slow or expensive MetricsQL queries — fixing rollup misuse, subquery blowups, and unbounded label matchers — to cut vmselect latency and memory without changing results.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Design Multitenancy and Tenant Isolation on VM Cluster
Design multitenancy on a VictoriaMetrics cluster — accountID:projectID URL routing through vminsert/vmselect, per-tenant limits and rate controls, isolation guarantees, and cost attribution.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Plan a Prometheus-to-VictoriaMetrics Migration
Design a low-risk migration from a single Prometheus (no Thanos) to VictoriaMetrics using remote_write dual-write, vmctl historical backfill, PromQL-to-MetricsQL compatibility checks, cutover, and validation.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Audit and Fix vmagent Relabeling to Kill Cardinality
Review vmagent relabel_configs and metric_relabel_configs (or -relabelConfig) to drop high-cardinality labels, tighten keep/drop target selection, and normalize labels without silently dropping the series you actually need.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Design VictoriaMetrics Stream Aggregation to Tame High-Cardinality Metrics
Design a vmagent or vmsingle stream aggregation config that pre-aggregates high-cardinality series at ingestion, collapsing labels while preserving counter and histogram semantics.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics Migration from Thanos Prompt
Plan a migration from a Thanos stack (sidecar, store gateway, compactor, object storage) to VictoriaMetrics — consolidating the moving parts, backfilling historical blocks, and preserving global query and long-term storage.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics vmagent Scraping and Remote-Write Prompt
Design and tune vmagent scrape configs, relabeling, and remote-write queues for reliable ingestion into VictoriaMetrics — with persistent queue sizing, multi-target fan-out, and backpressure handled.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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VictoriaMetrics vmalert Alerting and Recording Rules Prompt
Author, tune, and validate vmalert alerting and recording rules against VictoriaMetrics — using MetricsQL correctly, avoiding flapping and gaps, and wiring vmalert to VM and Alertmanager cleanly.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Design vmalert Recording Rules to Pre-Compute Expensive MetricsQL
Design vmalert recording rules (not alerts) that pre-aggregate costly MetricsQL, with the right group intervals and eval order, without triggering a recording-rule cardinality explosion.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Configure vmauth as an Auth and Routing Gateway
Configure vmauth in front of a VictoriaMetrics cluster — url_map routing, bearer/basic auth per user, per-user rate limiting, load balancing across vmselect/vminsert, and TLS termination.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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Design a vmbackup/vmrestore Disaster-Recovery Strategy
Design an end-to-end vmbackup, vmbackupmanager, and vmrestore DR plan with snapshots, object-storage layout, incremental backups, and rehearsed restore drills mapped to real RTO/RPO targets.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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About these Victoria Metrics AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of Victoria Metrics AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused Victoria Metrics assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production Victoria Metrics.
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