aid: victoriametrics
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/victoriametrics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: VictoriaMetrics
x-type: 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.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Database
  - Time-Series
  - Monitoring
  - Open Source
  - Prometheus
  - PromQL
  - MetricsQL
  - Observability
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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
  - 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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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
    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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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/
common:
  - 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
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com