# VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics — health index 97/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 97 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/v/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics.svg
- Inspected: 2026-08-05
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.31.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 96/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 95/100 | Exceptional |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 76/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 89/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 66/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 87/100 | Excellent |

The weighted overall 85 is calibrated to 97 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database |
| Classification | network-service, library, cli |
| Homepage | https://victoriametrics.com/ |
| Primary language | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 17,470 |
| Forks | 1,706 |
| Created | 2018-09-30 |
| Last push | 2026-08-04 |
| Latest release | v1.122.27 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,544 |
| Bus factor | 1 |
| Topics | tsdb, prometheus, promql, influxdb, graphite, opentsdb, database, thanos, observability, monitoring, kubernetes, grafana, opentelemetry |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics | v1.148.0 | — |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Exceptional)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1544 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 12 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 15 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~4.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 22 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 95/100 (Exceptional)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 97/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 17,470 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 1,706 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 12.1 / 15 | 151 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 76/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 42/100 (Weak)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 9.7 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 57% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 98 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 16 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 79/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 36.3 / 42 | 86% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 23.1 / 30 | 4450/5782 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | partial | 9.3 / 13 | 5/7 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 10.5 / 15 | Found 19/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 95/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | excluded | 0 / 20 | verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| Owner reach | partial | 21.3 / 25 | 925 followers of VictoriaMetrics |
| Track record | partial | 24.4 / 25 | 49 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on go |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 18 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 850 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 89/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 8 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .flake8, .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml, eslint.config.js |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | met | 6.4 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 18 / 20 | 21 out of 22 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://victoriametrics.com/ |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 13 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 66/100 (Good)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 58/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | not met | 0 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md |
| CI-Tests | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | 21 out of 22 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 5.2 / 7.5 | Found 19/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 7 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 16 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 12 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 0.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |
| SAST | partial | 4 / 5 | SAST tool detected but not run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | partial | 4.5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 10 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 678 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | excluded | 0 / 25 | transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| No advisories left outstanding | excluded | 0 / 40 | no advisory carries a publication date |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 87/100 (Excellent)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | vendor/github.com/aws/smithy-go/AGENTS.md, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/AGENTS.md, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 78 of 91 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 87/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, app/victoria-metrics/Makefile, app/vmagent/Makefile, app/vmalert-tool/Makefile, app/vmalert/Makefile, app/vmauth/Makefile, app/vmbackup/Makefile, app/vmctl/Makefile, app/vmrestore/Makefile, app/vmui/Makefile, benchmarks/Makefile, codespell/Makefile, dashboards/Makefile, deployment/docker/Makefile, deployment/marketplace/digitialocean/one-click-droplet/Makefile, deployment/marketplace/vultr/Makefile, docs/Makefile, package/release/Makefile, ports/OpenBSD/VictoriaMetrics/Makefile, vendor/github.com/aws/smithy-go/Makefile, vendor/github.com/felixge/httpsnoop/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto/Makefile, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor/Makefile, vendor/github.com/munnerz/goautoneg/Makefile, vendor/github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/pdatautil/Makefile, vendor/github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/deltatocumulativeprocessor/Makefile, vendor/github.com/prometheus/procfs/Makefile, vendor/github.com/prometheus/sigv4/Makefile, vendor/github.com/urfave/cli/v2/Makefile, vendor/github.com/valyala/gozstd/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/xconfmap/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/internal/componentalias/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pipeline/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/Makefile, vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/atomic/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/goleak/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/multierr/Makefile, vendor/go.uber.org/zap/Makefile, vendor/google.golang.org/grpc/Makefile, vendor/sigs.k8s.io/json/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .flake8, .golangci.yaml, .golangci.yml, eslint.config.js |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | app/vmui/packages/vmui/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | partial | 6 / 10 | 3 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 9 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 1 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 1 |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Go (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.3 / 55 | 17/1393 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | vendor/github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/validate/validate.proto, vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/gogo.proto, vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/custom_error.proto, vendor/github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/apierror/internal/proto/error.proto, vendor/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/prompb/io/prometheus/client/metrics.proto, vendor/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/prompb/io/prometheus/write/v2/types.proto, vendor/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/prompb/remote.proto, vendor/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/prompb/types.proto, vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/generated.proto, vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/generated.proto, vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/generated.proto, vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema/generated.proto, vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/intstr/generated.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 33 authors (cap 12)

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