Help with Victoriametrics and new state attributes messing up the DB

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Hello,

I am not sure if this is the correct spot, but I need some help/advice.

I am running Victoriametrics to save some data from my energy meter.
Now I updated HomeAssistant core, and after a restart there is a new state attribute firendly_name=“description of entitie” which was added to all sensors of my energy meter.

this made a big mess in my Grafana visualisation because every query stopped working.

Now I am not a big genius regarding Linux, Databases and so on, and I was unable to find information about how to fix this.
I could remove the friendly_name, but I am worried about the basic functionality of my setup.

What happens if a reboot or a new feature of HomeAssistant in the future changes the state attribute?
It will fuck up the database? Every time if a new attribute is added, or if I change something?

This does not sound like a selling feature to me, or am I missing something somewhere?

How can I prevent this somehow from happening?
Can I tell VM to only use a specific set of attributes which are saved in the database

Would InfluxDB have the same issues?
The VM is a new setup I tried to experiment with…

I am glad for any help I can get…

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Hello Miau09

First off, I don’t have any specific knowledge with this software, so someone else would have to add if they have any specific info on it.

I do see other posts about this addon in the forums that might help your cause.

I would suggest to put this string in your search engine and see what else is out there. I wish for your search to be successful.

site:home-assistant.io Victoriametrics

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Could you please elaborate on it?
AFAIK if you are using GitHub - fuslwusl/homeassistant-addon-victoriametrics: VictoriaMetrics Add-on for Home Assistant OS is the perfect solution for long term data storage of your smart home sensor data and visualization with Grafana. then the VictoriaMetrics data shouldn’t be deleted. Maybe you run you HA in docker without volume mounting to the local disk?

PS: you can get more help in one of our communities How to Contact the VictoriaMetrics Team! so feel free to ask anything.