Prometheus Alerting 101: Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager
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.
Heading to London: Meet Our Team at KubeCon Europe 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.
Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics
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.
Meet Our Team at Scale 22x
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.
Practical Protobuf - From Basic to Best Practices
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.
VictoriaLogs Status Update: Heading Towards the Cluster Version
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.
24th of February 2025 Statement: VictoriaMetrics Stands with Ukraine!
24th of February 2025: VictoriaMetrics Stands With Ukraine! Read the Statement.
Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained
When evaluating, instant vectors provide current snapshots, while range vectors give you multiple values over a period of time. But how do they work?
Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries
Metrics come in different types: counters that only increase, gauges that fluctuate, histograms that show value distributions, and summaries that pre-calculate statistics.
300%+ Growth in 2024: Join Our Team in 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!