Home Assistant Add-on to send to VictoriaMetrics Time Series Database

If you are looking for an efficient and easy to use way for long term storage of your Home Assistant data - just use VictoriaMetrics.

This add-on makes it easy to scrape (i.e. fetch) metrics locally, cache them in a temporary database, and send them to your centralized Victoria Metrics Time Series Database as soon as is is reachable, thus allowing to have full data even if the database is down or unreachable at times.

This add-on runs on ARM64 systems like Raspberry Pi 4 and many others (armhf, armv7, aarch64, amd64).

Replacement for InfluxDB and Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics Time Series Database is 100% compatible with the Prometheus and InfluxDB line protocol. So Homeassistant is able to connect to VictoriaMetrics with the InfluxDB integration. In Grafana you can use the Prometheus or InfluxDB data source to use your data in your Victoria Metrics database.

Much better long term storage

VictoriaMetrics offers an ultra efficient compression for data storage, is highly optimized for time series data and has low RAM usage. So this is the perfect solution for long term storage of high amounts of data like all sensor values of your smart home.

There are many reasons to switch to Victoria Metrics. Compared to other products Victoria Metrics offers:

• better compression
• better performance
• lower RAM usage
• fully open source
• outperfomes other time series databases
• ease of use

Victoria Metrics on GitHub

VictoriaMetrics wins InfluxDB and Timescale in all the queries by a margin of up to 20x. It especially excels at heavy queries, which scan many millions of datapoints across thousands of distinct timeseries. More info here VictoriaMetrics vs. InfluxDB vs. Timescale

This add-on continues the work of Andreas Habel whose hassio-victoriametrics add-on was not updated since 2021. I developed this mainly for my purpose running VictoriaMetrics on my Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant Operating System. The direction of InfluxDB 2.0 was not what I wanted in combination with Grafana so VictoriaMetrics Time Series Database was the best choice.

Installation and configuration

1. Add the reposity. (Quick link: )

   • Add the reposity (click 3 dots on the top right of the screen). Reposity URL: https://github.com/lapo-luchini/homeassistant-addon-vmagent
   • Refresh/reload your browser tab/window

2. Install the add-on:

   • Find, and install the Victoria Metrics Agent add-on

3. Configure Victoria Metrics

   Read the addon documentation which can also be found on the Documentation tab of the Victoria Metrics Agent addon in the Home Assistant settings.

4. Start the Victoria Metrics add-on

5. Add the influxdb integration to your Home Assistant configuration

   Instructions for adding and configuring the influxdb integration are in the addon documentation which can also be found on the Documentation tab of the Victoria Metrics addon configuration.

   Don't forget to restart Home Assistant!

Well done! You can install and configure Grafana or similar to check data is being logged.