VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

• Performance
• VictoriaTraces
• Benchmark
• OpenTelemetry
• Distributed Tracing
• OTLP

VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon: Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

If you’ve been struggling with the high resource overhead of tail sampling, check out retroactive sampling, an approach that significantly reduces sampling overhead for distributed tracing in OpenTelemetry.

• Distributed Tracing
• Performance
• Benchmark
• Observability
• OpenTelemetry
• OTLP

Discarding gRPC-Go: The Story Behind OTLP/gRPC Support in VictoriaTraces

Why did VictoriaTraces build gRPC support without using gRPC-Go? And what are the benefits of adopting a simple HTTP/2 server and easyproto?

• Performance
• VictoriaLogs
• Benchmark
• OpenTelemetry
• Distributed Tracing
• OTLP

Developer's Note: Research on Distributed Tracing, Comparing With Tempo and ClickHouse

When it comes to observability, people often refer to its three pillars: metrics, tracing, and logging. At VictoriaMetrics, we already have solutions for metrics and logging. Throughout these years, we’ve heard a common question from the community: When will VictoriaTraces be released? If you are interested in this topic, then this blog post is for you. We’ll share the results of our research into distributed tracing and explore two key questions: Will there be a VictoriaTraces? And how competitive could it be?

• Time Series Database
• Monitoring
• Performance

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus 2.x, Prometheus 3.x, and vmagent are put together for comparison in scraping and pushing data to remote storage.

• Time Series Database
• Monitoring
• Community

Community Question: High Churn Rate Without New Time Series?

• Monitoring
• Time Series Database
• Observability

Troubleshooting Time Series Databases: Where Did My Metrics Go?

I have already recorded metrics in the application, why can’t I see my metrics on Grafana?