The VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

Proper alerting is an art. It is all about foreseeing bad scenarios before they happen, so you can prepare for them. In this article, we go through practical recommendations of approaching the alerting to reduce alerting fatigue and avoid false positives.

Tech Talk: In this post, we explore vmanomaly through the eyes of its creators. Learn how this AI-powered alerting system helps cut through noise, avoid static rule spaghetti, and deliver actionable insights directly from your monitoring data.

VictoriaLogs uses three core concepts: message, time, and stream fields to structure log data. Too few streams create fat streams that are slow to query, while too many unique stream combinations create high cardinality problems…

Operating systems expose a wall clock that can leap or slew with NTP and a monotonic clock that never runs backward. In Go, only time.Now (might) carries both readings, while values from time.Parse, time.Date, etc., are wall-clock-only—so naïve equality checks or time.Since on those can mislead when the system clock shifts.

We’re excited to announce a new deployment region for VictoriaMetrics Cloud in ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), making it easier for users in Asia Pacific to run low-latency VictoriaMetrics Cloud stacks closer to home.

This post recaps the latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud updates, including enhanced multi-tenancy support for Access Tokens, exciting new ways to interact with VictoriaMetrics Cloud through the MCP Server integration and code-first libraries. We’re also continuing our journey of improving our docs with a fresh approach to discovering and deploying integrations.

VictoriaMetrics Enterprise now offers FIPS 140-3 compatible builds, leveraging the BoringCrypto module. This enables organizations in regulated sectors, such as the federal government, finance, and healthcare, to meet stringent cryptographic requirements using VictoriaMetrics.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of the VictoriaLogs Cluster version – one of the most requested and anticipated updates from our user community. If you’ve been pushing the boundaries of vertical scaling, the solution for horizontal scalability is now here.

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.

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?