16882282+RaminTorabi@users.noreply.github.com Ramin Torabi VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective, and scalable time-series database. The single-node binary handles ingestion, storage, and querying for deployments where a clustered setup would be overkill. Compatible with InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Prometheus remote_write, and OpenTelemetry — useful as a central sink for sensor data, application metrics, or any other write-heavy time-series workload. This is the prebuilt-binary variant: it pulls the upstream's statically-linked release artifacts (victoria-metrics-prod plus the vmutils bundle: vmagent, vmalert, vmauth, vmbackup, vmctl, vmrestore) directly from GitHub Releases. No Go toolchain or compilation is required — install completes in seconds. Use the source-build sibling (app-metrics/victoria-metrics) when binary repackaging is not acceptable for policy reasons.