VictoriaMetrics MCP Server (Official)
Official VictoriaMetrics MCP server enabling AI agents to query and interact with VictoriaMetrics' high-performance time-series database — running MetricsQL/PromQL queries, exploring metrics, managing retention, and integrating metrics data into agent-driven observability workflows.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTPS configurable. Optional auth. SOC 2, GDPR for Cloud. Self-hosted security is operator responsibility.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
An agent needs to query time-series metrics from a VictoriaMetrics instance — especially as a Prometheus-compatible, cost-efficient alternative.
Avoid When
You're using Prometheus directly, Datadog, or Grafana Cloud for metrics.
Use Cases
- • Querying infrastructure metrics using PromQL/MetricsQL from monitoring agents
- • Investigating performance anomalies from incident response agents
- • Generating metric summaries and SLO reports from analytics agents
- • Discovering available metrics and labels from data exploration agents
- • Monitoring cluster health and performance from ops agents
- • Setting up alerting rules from automated configuration agents
Not For
- • Teams using Prometheus directly, Datadog, or Grafana Cloud for metrics
- • Log management (use VictoriaLogs for logs)
- • Non-metrics observability (traces, profiles)
Interface
Authentication
Optional auth via basic auth or bearer tokens. Open access common in internal deployments. VictoriaMetrics Cloud uses auth tokens.
Pricing
VictoriaMetrics is open source — self-hosted is free. Cloud version available. 10x cheaper than Grafana Cloud for equivalent storage. MCP server is open source.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ MetricsQL is a superset of PromQL — additional functions available but not in standard Prometheus
- ⚠ VictoriaMetrics URL and port must be reachable from agent environment
- ⚠ Time range queries require start/end in Unix timestamp or relative format
- ⚠ High cardinality queries can be expensive — agents should use label filters
- ⚠ Cluster vs single-node deployment have different API paths
- ⚠ No authentication by default in many deployments — check security configuration
Alternatives
Full Evaluation Report
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.