Deploy and Host VictoriaMetrics on Railway

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective time series database that accepts Prometheus remote write and many other ingestion formats.

About Hosting VictoriaMetrics

This template runs the official single-node victoriametrics/victoria-metrics image with a volume at /victoria-metrics-data. The UI is at /vmui. Access is protected with basic auth: username admin, password is the VM_PASSWORD variable on the service. Use the same credentials when pointing Grafana or Prometheus at the URL.

Common Use Cases

Long-term Prometheus storage
Metrics backend for Grafana
IoT and application metrics

Dependencies for VictoriaMetrics Hosting

One service with a volume; nothing else

Deployment Dependencies

VictoriaMetrics on GitHub
Docker image

Why Deploy VictoriaMetrics on Railway?

Railway gives you a public HTTPS URL, a persistent volume and automatic restarts with no server to maintain.