Looks nice. I would like to use something like this to remotely monitor machines. Currently use Prometheus (but without Grafana), since the alerting and built-in graphing is sufficient.
But agree with OP that Prometheus feels more complex than need be for simple use cases. But so does sendmail ;)
> VictoriaMetrics is a layer on top of Prometheus from a quick read.
Sorry, but you're wrong!
VictoriaMetrics was built from scratch with own ideas [1][2][3] and never was build on top of Prometheus. Yes, it use some libs which are used in Prometheus/InfluxDB/othe open source projects but thats all. More over VictoriaMetrics team has created own query language, named MetricsQL [4] which is inspired by PromQL [5].
> I managed simple alerts just using Prometheus's alert manager and aws's simple mail system, I prefer this simpler approach.
In the VictoriaMetrics stack, alerting is placed in a separate utility - vmalert [6] that is responsible for alerts and works with alertmanager as well as Prometheus.
But agree with OP that Prometheus feels more complex than need be for simple use cases. But so does sendmail ;)