Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
Self-managed Apache Kafka deployed with Confluent Platform for event streaming, durable logs, and integration pipelines.
Extra Small — single-node deployment for ingestion rates below 1 million samples per second
Monthly cost
$520.32
Annual cost
$6,244/year
| Compute | $280.32 |
| Storage | $240.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Node | 1 × Standard_D8s_v5 | 8 | 32 | 2 TB |
This Extra Small single-node VictoriaMetrics deployment is suitable for ingestion rates under 1 million samples per second. Compute and storage are the primary cost drivers, each contributing around $240-280 to the $520 monthly total. This configuration prioritizes cost efficiency for low ingestion volumes by disabling high availability, making it a single point of failure.
Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.
Terraform export is available for Google Cloud at launch. AWS and Azure are deferred to v1.5. Reference architecture: VictoriaMetrics for single-node, version VictoriaMetrics cluster version current documentation, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://docs.victoriametrics.com/cluster-victoriametrics/
Pricing: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Based on VictoriaMetrics cluster documentation and translated into VM-based planning tiers for single-node and clustered self-managed deployments.
Estimate excludes object storage backups, vmagent fan-out, vmauth policy layers beyond the generic load balancer role, and workload-specific tuning from a production test run.
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