CloudEstimate

Size VictoriaMetrics on Google Cloud

Extra Small — single-node deployment for ingestion rates below 1 million samples per second

Monthly cost

$731.28

Annual cost

$8,775/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $391.28
Storage $340.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Single Node 1 × n2-standard-8 8 32 2 TB

Why this sizing

VictoriaMetrics at the extra small tier maps to the single-node reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 54% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Single Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 2 TB.

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Google Cloud Terraform baseline
terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.6.0"

  required_providers {
    google = {
      source  = "hashicorp/google"
      version = "~> 6.0"
    }
  }
}

variable "project_id" {
  description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
  type        = string
  default     = "replace-with-project-id"
}

provider "google" {
  project = var.project_id
  region  = "us-central1"
  zone    = "us-central1-a"
}

# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.

resource "google_compute_disk" "single_node_1_data" {
  count = 1
  name  = "victoria-metrics-single-node-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "pd-ssd"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 2000
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "single_node_1" {
  count        = 1
  name         = "victoria-metrics-single-node-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-8"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
      size  = 50
      type  = "pd-balanced"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
    access_config {}
  }
  attached_disk {
    source = google_compute_disk.single_node_1_data[count.index].id
    mode   = "READ_WRITE"
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "victoria-metrics"
    role = "single-node"
  }
}

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Sources

Reference architecture: VictoriaMetrics for single-node, version VictoriaMetrics cluster version current documentation, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/cluster-victoriametrics/

Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.

Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.

Not included in this estimate

  • Vendor licensing and support
  • Professional services
  • Network egress
  • Compliance controls
  • Backup storage
  • Monitoring

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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