How do I install the Victoria Metrics skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add aidas-dev/victoria-metrics in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the Victoria Metrics skill do?

Route to the correct VictoriaMetrics skill. Use when working with VictoriaMetrics — operator CRDs, queries, cardinality analysis, logs, traces, or trace analysis. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.

Is Victoria Metrics safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Victoria Metrics?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Victoria Metrics free to use?

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Who published Victoria Metrics?

Aidas-dev (@aidas-dev) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Victoria Metrics by aidas-dev — Agent Skill

Name: Victoria Metrics
Author: Aidas-dev

File contents

VictoriaMetrics — Skill Router

Pick the right sub-skill based on what the user needs.

Which Sub-Skill?

User wants to...	Load skill
Create/configure VM Operator CRDs (VMAgent, VMSingle, VMAlert, VMServiceScrape, VLogs, etc.)	`victoriametrics-operator`
Query metrics with PromQL/MetricsQL via curl, explore labels/series	`victoriametrics-query`
Analyze high cardinality, find optimization opportunities	`victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis`
Find unused metrics wasting storage/ingestion	`victoriametrics-unused-metrics-analysis`
Search logs with LogsQL, explore log fields/streams	`victorialogs-query`
Query traces via Jaeger-compatible API	`victoriatraces-query`
Analyze a slow VM query trace JSON	`vm-trace-analyzer`

Quick Map

Task	Skill
"Create a VMAgent for my cluster"	`victoriametrics-operator`
"Set up VMServiceScrape for my app"	`victoriametrics-operator`
"Write a PromQL query for CPU usage"	`victoriametrics-query`
"Find metrics with too many labels"	`victoriametrics-cardinality-analysis`
"Which metrics are never queried?"	`victoriametrics-unused-metrics-analysis`
"Search logs for error in namespace X"	`victorialogs-query`
"Find traces for service X"	`victoriatraces-query`
"This PromQL query is slow, why?"	`vm-trace-analyzer`
"Configure VMAlert with alerting rules"	`victoriametrics-operator`
"Set up VLSingle for log storage"	`victoriametrics-operator`

Frequently asked questions

Victoria Metrics