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
$524.61
Annual cost
$6,295/year
| Compute | $184.61 |
| Storage | $340.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Node | 1 × n2-standard-8 | 8 | 32 | 2 TB |
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 $731. The single-node architecture with disabled high availability means there is no redundancy for data or service uptime.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "single_node_1_data" {
count = 1
name = "victoria-metrics-single-node-1-data-${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"
}
}
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.
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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