Inspect TSDB cardinality status

top metrics by series count in VictoriaMetrics; pinpoint label explosions fast

curl -s 'http://vm:8428/api/v1/status/tsdb?topN=10' | jq '.data.seriesCountByMetricName'
tool
victoriametrics2 commands
tags
victoriametricsperformancetroubleshootingobservability

More victoriametrics commands

  • Consistent backup of VM storage
    curl -s http://vm:8428/snapshot/create | jq -r .snapshot | xargs -I{} vmbackup -storageDataPath=/vmdata -snapshotName={} -dst=s3://bucket/vm

    snapshot then vmbackup to S3 for a consistent copy; vmrestore reverses it

all 2 victoriametrics commands