Follow a single metric through its whole life inside VictoriaMetrics: born as a counter in your process, exported over the wire, given an identity and an inverted-index entry, written through an LSM tree, compressed into columnar blocks on disk, read back by a rate() query, downsampled as it ages, and finally deleted when retention runs out.
The Life of a Metric
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