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VictoriaMetrics: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

VictoriaMetrics is a time series database and monitoring solution. The core stores metrics and queries them with PromQL and MetricsQL; there are also VictoriaLogs for logs and VictoriaTraces for distributed traces. Teams use it as storage for Prometheus data and for observability. It can run as a single binary or as a cluster, via Docker or Kubernetes, and is also offered as a managed service, VictoriaMetrics Cloud. An Enterprise edition adds support and extra features such as anomaly detection.

The company was founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is now run worldwide from the United States. The open-source code is on GitHub under Apache-2.0, so you can run it entirely on your own infrastructure in the EU. VictoriaMetrics Cloud runs on AWS in regions in Europe, the United States and Asia-Pacific, so a European region can be chosen. Because the vendor is a US company, US jurisdiction may be relevant for the managed service; self-hosting avoids that.

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Sovereignty score

61 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	victoriametrics.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to VictoriaMetrics

The European alternatives to VictoriaMetrics come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

VictoriaMetrics hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

VictoriaMetrics is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs VictoriaMetrics together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to VictoriaMetrics?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to VictoriaMetrics include Pandora FMS, Uptrace and Hyperping. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to VictoriaMetrics?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to VictoriaMetrics include Pandora FMS and Uptrace. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is VictoriaMetrics GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

VictoriaMetrics is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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