16882282+RaminTorabi@users.noreply.github.com Ramin Torabi VictoriaMetrics cluster mode — the horizontally scalable variant of the VictoriaMetrics time-series database. The cluster decomposes the single-node binary into three independent services: - vmstorage — stores raw samples and serves queries. - vminsert — accepts ingested data and shards it across vmstorage. - vmselect — fans queries out across vmstorage and merges results. This is the prebuilt-binary variant: the upstream victoria-metrics-linux-amd64-vN.M.P-cluster.tar.gz release artifact is fetched from GitHub Releases and unpacked directly into /opt/victoriametrics/. No Go toolchain or compilation is required — install completes in seconds. Use the source-build sibling (app-metrics/victoria-metrics-cluster) when binary repackaging is not acceptable for policy reasons. For deployments below ~1M samples/sec the single-node sibling (app-metrics/victoria-metrics-bin) is recommended over the cluster.