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# metrics - lightweight alternative to `github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus`.


### Features

* Lightweight. Has minimal number of third-party dependencies and all these deps are small.
  See [this article](https://medium.com/@valyala/stripping-dependency-bloat-in-victoriametrics-docker-image-983fb5912b0d) for details.
* Easy to use. See the [API docs](http://godoc.org/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics).
* Fast.


### Limitations

* It doesn't implement advanced functionality from [github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus](https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus).


### Users

* `Metrics` has been extracted from [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics) sources.
  See [this article](https://medium.com/devopslinks/victoriametrics-creating-the-best-remote-storage-for-prometheus-5d92d66787ac)
  for more info about `VictoriaMetrics`.