VictoriaMetrics service management via ADCM
The ADCM UI provides actions to manage the VictoriaMetrics service and its components. For information on how to run service actions, refer to Service actions.
The actions available for the VictoriaMetrics service are listed in the table below.
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Add/Remove components |
Running this action opens the component-host mapping interface where you can add, remove, and distribute VictoriaMetrics components. You can use this action to add or remove VictoriaMetrics Storage (VMStorage) instances after the initial ADM installation. This action only changes the component deployment and cluster topology. ADM does not migrate or redistribute stored data — this remains the administrator’s responsibility.
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Check |
Runs service-specific tests to check the health of the service and its components |
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Restart |
Restarts the service.
When you run this action, the option Apply configs from ADCM is available.
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Start |
Starts the VictoriaMetrics service.
When you run this action, the option Apply configs from ADCM is available.
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Stop |
Stops the VictoriaMetrics service |
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Uninstall |
Uninstalls the VictoriaMetrics service. However, VictoriaMetrics Storage data is not deleted from the host where it was stored (see section VictoriaMetrics → Storage Settings of Configuration parameters) |
VictoriaMetrics components actions
The following actions are supported for all VictoriaMetrics components.
| Action | Description |
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Restart |
Restarts the component on all cluster hosts |
Start |
Starts the component on all cluster hosts |
Stop |
Stops the component on all cluster hosts |
Restart VictoriaMetrics components
If you need to restart VictoriaMetrics components individually via component actions, trigger their Restart actions in the following order:
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Restart the VictoriaMetrics Storage component.
NOTEOn large data volumes, the VictoriaMetrics Storage component may take a significant amount of time to restart (see the VictoriaMetrics documentation). Data ingestion and querying are completely unavailable during the restart. Although the VictoriaMetrics Insert and VictoriaMetrics Select components remain running, they cannot process data until the VictoriaMetrics Storage component is up and running.
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Restart the VictoriaMetrics Insert component. The restart finishes almost instantly because the component is stateless, so data ingestion stops only for a brief moment.
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Restart the VictoriaMetrics Select component. The restart completes almost instantly, so metrics visualization in Grafana is interrupted only for a brief moment.