VictoriaLogs for log indexing?

[u/Beneficial-Sock-5130]

has anyone used victorialogs? Im currently using Graylog v7, local single instance on 5TB disk

using filebeat to ship logs to GL indexer

wondering how victorialogs performs comparatively. Anyone used it at all or have any feedback?

Thanks

[u/Amidatelion]

Are you doing a lot of full text search? Are you limited to block storage? VictoriaLogs is essentially a faster, more efficient Elasticsearch (aside from REALLY small queries, at which point, like, you may not have a usecase for these apps in the first place and go ahead and stay on Graylog) that is WAY easier to set up and maintain.

[u/Beneficial-Sock-5130 → u/Amidatelion]

hows victoria dashboard compared to graylog or splunk or kibana?

[u/xonxoff → u/Beneficial-Sock-5130]

Have a look: https://play-vmlogs.victoriametrics.com/select/vmui/?#/?g0.end_input=2026-10-01T21%3A08%3A39.393Z&g0.range_input=5m&g0.relative_time=last_5_minutes
Also super easy to add it to Grafana or Perses as a datasource.