--- title: Install victoriametrics on elementary OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of victoriametrics for on elementary OS - VictoriaMetrics is fast, cost-effective and scalable time-series database. url: https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install victoriametrics on **elementary OS** # victoriametrics [VictoriaMetrics Community (victoriametricscommunity)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/victoriametricscommunity "View all snaps from VictoriaMetrics Community (victoriametricscommunity)") * [VictoriaMetrics Community (victoriametricscommunity)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/victoriametricscommunity "View all snaps from VictoriaMetrics Community (victoriametricscommunity)") * [Devices and IoT](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=devices-and-iot) * [Server and Cloud](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=server-and-cloud) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary#install) #### VictoriaMetrics is fast, cost-effective and scalable time-series database. * VictoriaMetrics can be used as long-term storage for Prometheus or for vmagent. See [these docs]([#prometheus-setup](https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary#prometheus-setup)) for details. + Supports Prometheus querying API, so it can be used as Prometheus drop-in replacement in Grafana. VictoriaMetrics implements MetricsQL, query language, which is inspired by PromQL. + Supports global query view. Multiple Prometheus instances may write data into VictoriaMetrics. Later this data may be used in a single query. + High performance and good scalability for both inserts and selects. + High data compression, so up to 70x more data points may be crammed into limited storage comparing to TimescaleDB. + Optimized for storage with high-latency IO and low IOPS (HDD and network storage in AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc). + A single-node VictoriaMetrics may substitute moderately sized clusters built with competing solutions such as Thanos, M3DB, Cortex, InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. + Easy operation: - VictoriaMetrics consists of a single without external dependencies. - All the configuration is done via explicit command-line flags with reasonable defaults. - All the data is stored in a single directory pointed by `-storageDataPath` flag. - Easy and fast backups from to S3 or GCS with [vmbackup] / [vmrestore]. + Storage is protected from corruption on unclean shutdown (i.e. OOM, hardware reset or `kill -9`) thanks to the storage architecture. + Supports metrics' scraping, ingestion and backfilling via the following protocols: - [Metrics from Prometheus exporters] such as node\_exporter. * Prometheus remote write API( * InfluxDB line protocol over HTTP, TCP and UDP. * Graphite plaintext protocol if `-graphiteListenAddr` is set. * OpenTSDB put message, if `-opentsdbListenAddr` is set. * HTTP OpenTSDB /api/put requests, if `-opentsdbHTTPListenAddr` is set. * JSON line format. * Native binary format. * Prometheus exposition format. * Arbitrary CSV data. + Supports metrics' relabeling. See [these docs]([#relabeling](https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary#relabeling)) for details. + Ideally works with big amounts of time series data from Kubernetes, IoT sensors, connected cars, industrial telemetry, financial data and various Enterprise workloads. + Has open source cluster version (). + Configuration management + Prometheus scrape config can be edited with your favorite editor, its located at `vi /var/snap/victoriametrics/current/etc/victoriametrics-scrape-config.yaml` after changes, you can trigger config reread with `curl localhost:8248/-/reload`. + Configuration tuning is possible with editing extra\_flags: `echo 'FLAGS="-selfScrapeInterval=10s -search.logSlowQueryDuration=20s"' > /var/snap/victoriametrics/current/extra_flags snap restart victoriametrics` + Data folder located at `/var/snap/victoriametrics/current/var/lib/victoriametrics/`. ### Package name * victoriametrics --- ### License * Apache-2.0 --- ### Last updated * 9 December 2024 - latest/stable * 9 December 2024 - latest/edge --- ### Websites * [victoriametrics.com](https://victoriametrics.com/ "https://victoriametrics.com/") --- ### Contact * [info@victoriametrics.com](mailto:info@victoriametrics.com "mailto:info@victoriametrics.com") --- ### Source code * [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics "https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose "https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/new/choose") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on elementary OS and install victoriametrics Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open *Terminal* from the Applications launcher and type the following: ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd ``` Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install victoriametrics To install victoriametrics, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install victoriametrics ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/) now. [Back to top](https://snapcraft.io/install/victoriametrics/elementary) © 2026 Canonical Ltd. 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