Writing k6 outputs to Victoria Metrics

Question

I'm using Victoria Metrics as a metric storage. I would like to use VM rather than using InfluxDB

In this case I just port forwarded to my VM port then run;

k6 run --out influxdb=http://127.0.0.1:8480/k6 click_performancetest.js --http-debug="full"

However when I do it, getting this;

requestURI: /write?consistency=&db=k6&precision=ns&rp=; cannot parse path "/write": cannot find {prefix}\n" output=InfluxDBv1

Is there any blog, article or suggestion for using Victoria metrics using k6 with rather than using InfluxDB?

Thanks in advance

Is Victoria Metrics compatible with InfluxDB or why do you expect `influxdb=http://your-victoria-metrics-server/k6` to work? I don't see Victoria Metrics in . There's an open GitHub issue about adding more external outputs: — knittl, Sep 17 '22 at 07:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '22 at 08:17

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It is likely you run cluster version of VictoriaMetrics instead of single-node VictoriaMetrics. The cluster version of VictoriaMetrics has different urls for data ingestion because of multitenancy support - see these docs for details. That's why you need to send data from k6 to the url like http://vminsert:8480/insert/0/influx/write .

answered Sep 17 '22 at 08:17

valyala

Thanks for answering @valyala. This is actually a solution, but seems there are some stability issues when using this. – Berkay Kirmizioglu Oct 07 '22 at 10:21
@BerkayKirmizioglu , could you provide more details regarding stability issues? – valyala Oct 07 '22 at 10:59

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