CloudEstimate

Size VictoriaMetrics on Google Cloud

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

Monthly cost

$524.61

Annual cost

$6,295/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $184.61
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

This configuration supports VictoriaMetrics single-node deployments for ingestion rates under 1 million samples per second. Compute is the primary cost driver at $391, closely followed by storage at $340, together comprising the entire monthly cost of $731. The single-node architecture with disabled high availability means there is no redundancy for data or service uptime.

Export

Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.

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 May 6, 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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