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Integrations made easy with VictoriaMetrics Cloud

by Jose Gomez-Selles / Alexander Marshalov on Jun 10, 2025

Discover the latest improvements to integrations in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, including interactive guides, streamlined Kubernetes monitoring, and our commitment to full-stack observability without vendor lock-in.

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

by Zhu Jiekun on Jun 9, 2025

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?

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vmagent: Key Features Explained in Under 15 Minutes

by Phuong Le on Jun 6, 2025

vmagent is a lightweight agent for collecting and forwarding metrics to remote storage. It supports relabeling, sharding, replication, aggregation, deduplication, and disk buffering to ensure reliable and efficient metric delivery.

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Go synctest: Solving Flaky Tests

by Phuong Le on May 23, 2025

Traditional concurrent Go tests can be flaky due to non-deterministic scheduler behavior and timing. Go 1.24’s experimental synctest feature provides deterministic testing by running goroutines in isolated ‘bubbles’ where a synthetic clock only advances when all internally managed goroutines are durably blocked.

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Celebrating 14K Stars on GitHub: Spring Update

by Denys Holius on May 21, 2025

Seeing that VictoriaMetrics products are this popular with engineers worldwide is fantastic: Just a little over a year ago, we hit 10K stars, and with the adoption of VictoriaLogs, the star count now went beyond 14K. Read about most recent achievements in this blog post.

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vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring

by Marc Sherwood on May 15, 2025

Turn alerts into action, not noise. Our May 22nd Tech Talk (10 AM PDT) dives into vmalert best practices. Learn to configure, write effective rules, and optimize your VictoriaMetrics alerting strategy. Don’t miss out!

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VictoriaMetrics Components: Getting Started

by Phuong Le on May 9, 2025

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, scalable monitoring system made of modular components like vminsert, vmstorage, and vmselect. It supports both single-node and clustered setups, along with tools for backup, restore, alerting, access control, and data migration. Data can be ingested, stored, queried, backed up, and restored with high performance and minimal resource use.

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VictoriaMetrics Connects with the Open Source Community at LinuxFest Northwest 2025

by Marc Sherwood on May 6, 2025

We have just got back from an incredible weekend representing VictoriaMetrics at LinuxFest Northwest 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA! 🌲🏔️

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Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

by Phuong Le on May 2, 2025

Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…

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VictoriaLogs: Gaps, Gains & Growth

by Marc Sherwood on Apr 29, 2025

In our fourth VictoriaMetrics Tech Talks episode, we wrapped up our deep dive into logs and summarized the key takeaways for effective log management. This installment concluded our log series, featuring Co-founder and CTO Alex who joined to share some exciting news and updates from VictoriaMetrics.

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