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Prometheus Alerting 101: Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager

by Phuong Le on Mar 18, 2025

Recording rules can transform complex PromQL queries into pre-computed metrics, eliminating repeated calculation overhead. When organized in groups, these alerting and recording rules can be precisely scheduled to run at specific times like 01:30, 02:30, and even execute in parallel for maximum efficiency.

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Heading to London: Meet Our Team at KubeCon Europe 2025

by Gonzalo García Labat on Mar 11, 2025

Say hello at booth #N503 for KubeCon Europe 2025 in London, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, VictoriaMetrics, anomaly detection capabilities, and more.

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Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics

by Phuong Le on Mar 7, 2025

The article explains vmselect’s core functionalities: concurrent request processing, query parsing and validation, data fetching and merging from vmstorage nodes, and memory-efficient result caching.

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Meet Our Team at Scale 22x

by Gonzalo García Labat on Mar 6, 2025

Say hello at booth #313 for SCaLE 22x in Pasadena, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, the latest VictoriaMetrics updates and more.

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Practical Protobuf - From Basic to Best Practices

by Phuong Le on Feb 27, 2025

Different Protobuf types dramatically impact your binary size—sint32 encoding needs just 1 byte for negative numbers while int32 wastes 10 bytes, repeated fields can balloon with large tag numbers, and poor type choices can triple your network traffic. Learn the exact patterns to optimize your Protobuf messages for production.

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VictoriaLogs Status Update: Heading Towards the Cluster Version

by Aliaksandr Valialkin / Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson on Feb 26, 2025

Whether you’re just discovering VictoriaLogs or have been using it for a while, this post will walk you through the recent enhancements and give you a sneak peek at the much anticipated cluster version that’s on the horizon.

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24th of February 2025 Statement: VictoriaMetrics Stands with Ukraine!

by Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson on Feb 24, 2025

24th of February 2025: VictoriaMetrics Stands With Ukraine! Read the Statement.

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Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained

by Phuong Le on Feb 21, 2025

When evaluating, instant vectors provide current snapshots, while range vectors give you multiple values over a period of time. But how do they work?

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Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries

by Phuong Le on Feb 21, 2025

Metrics come in different types: counters that only increase, gauges that fluctuate, histograms that show value distributions, and summaries that pre-calculate statistics.

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300%+ Growth in 2024: Join Our Team in 2025!

by Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson on Feb 20, 2025

When we ended 2024 with continued growth (300+%) both in terms of open source adoption and enterprise business we thought: We’re going to need some more help in 2025!

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