Never-firing alerts: What they are and how to deal with them
Read how vmalert helps to find alerting rules which don’t match any time series. Such rules will never fire and only trick users with a false sense of protection.
How to use VictoriaMetrics for monitoring with Netdata Agent
How to set up VictoriaMetrics as long-term storage for Netdata Agent metrics
Releasing Graphite Query Language in Open Source VictoriaMetrics
We are releasing Graphite Query Language in open source VictoriaMetrics starting with VictoriaMetrics v1.90 - i.e. we’re open sourcing Graphite Query Language in VictoriaMetrics.
Q1 Roadmap Review & Q2 2023 Look Ahead
Read about our early achievements in 2023, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, initial details on the upcoming VictoriaLogs, as well as where to find our team in the coming weeks.
Save network costs with VictoriaMetrics remote write protocol
Save network bandwidth costs when transferring data to VictoriaMetrics starting from v1.88
24th of February 2023 - Statement
War is a crime, and we unequivocally condemn Russia’s actions - please read our full statement below. We will stick to these principles until Ukraine achieves victory and beyond
VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): Commitment, Current and Next LTS Versions
Overview of LTS releases, commitment from the VictoriaMetrics team about them, and migration from one LTS to another
Rules backfilling via vmalert
Read how to use vmalert’s replay mode to retroactively evaluate recording and alerting rules with SLO objective as example.
Monitoring the Universe & Beyond: Our 2022 in Review
This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2022 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks.
Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data
One of the latest benchmarks we made was ‘VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second’. While the fact of such scale for VictoriaMetrics is noteworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that load is usually overlooked. In this blog post I’ll explain in more details the challenge of running such benchmarks.