VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

Pablo Fernandez
Category
Clear all filters

Filter: Pablo Fernandez

VictoriaMetrics August 2026 Ecosystem Updates

The VictoriaMetrics team shipped two core releases with important security fixes. The vmanomaly team shipped two updates with improved scaling and more efficient models. Plus, Tech Talks are back, this time demoing AI-assisted incident troubleshooting.

VictoriaMetrics July 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics July updates bring a new LTS release, vmestimator, and a set of improvements across the stack that make operations simpler and observability more practical.

Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

vmestimator is a new open-source tool that estimates metric cardinality in real time. It can alert to high-cardinality spikes before they slow queries and increase resource usage. Works with any Prometheus-compatible setups, Grafana, and vmalert

VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup

Take a look at what we shipped in the first half of 2026 across VictoriaMetrics: metrics, logs, traces, and cloud,with improvements in performance, scalability, and usability.

VictoriaMetrics May 2026 Ecosystem Updates

May 2026 VictoriaMetrics release roundup: v1.144.0 brings 15 bug fixes and 9 UX improvements for reliability and observability, while v1.143.0 adds native Prometheus histogram ingestion support across vmagent, vmsingle, and vminsert. Also includes the first LTS release for VictoriaMetrics Operator.

How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent

Learn how Airbnb rebuilt its observability pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent to handle over 100 million samples per second, reduce cost by 10x, and simplify high-scale metrics aggregation.

Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads

Discover multi-tier observability architecture with VictoriaMetrics OSS. Learn how to isolate default, high-cardinality, and business-critical workloads into separate tiers with optimized retention periods, ingestion resolution, cardinality limits, alerting policies, and cost controls.

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 release round‑up: heads up about critical VictoriaMetrics bugfixes in v1.141.0–v1.142.0, and explore new VictoriaLogs features including Splunk ingestion and advanced LogsQL tooling.

VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates

March 2026 VictoriaMetrics Stack releases deliver Grafana Cardinality Explorer, VMUI pagination, JWT auth enhancements, log UI sidebar, and Kubernetes log enrichment for scalable observability. Upgrade now for better UI usability, query performance, and production-ready monitoring workflows.