VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

Blog posts

• 

  • Observability
  • Monitoring
  • OpenTelemetry

  GPU Observability with the OpenLIT Collector and the VictoriaMetrics observability stack

  Monitor NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs with the OpenLIT OpenTelemetry GPU Collector and the VictoriaMetrics stack: eBPF CUDA kernel tracing, OTel hardware semantic conventions, MetricsQL queries, recording rules, and alerts.

• 

  • Observability
  • Monitoring
  • Distributed Tracing
  • OpenTelemetry

  Observability for LLM Apps and Agents: OpenLIT SDK + VictoriaMetrics observability stack

  See practical examples on monitoring LLM applications and Agents with OpenLIT and VictoriaMetrics observability stack. See real examples of the deployment manifests, alerting rules and Grafana dashboard.

• 

  • Observability
  • Monitoring

  Alerting Best Practices

  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.

• 

  • Monitoring
  • Open Source Tech
  • Observability

  Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later!

  We believe microservices shouldn’t be the default and that companies should start with monoliths until reality actually demands they scale and shift from one node to a cluster of nodes. As a result, we offer clustering on an open source basis because we want to support realistic growth. Read on for details!

• 

  • Open Source Tech
  • Monitoring

  FOSDEM 2025 recap

  FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a huge, free, gathering for open-source software enthusiasts that happens every February in Brussels, Belgium. It’s a non-profit event put together by the community, and it’s one of the biggest of its kind. See more in our recap!

• 

  • Performance
  • Time Series Database

  How to reduce expenses on monitoring: be smarter about data

  This blog post is the second in the series of the blog posts based on the talk about ‘How to reduce expenses on monitoring’, stackconf 2023. It is about open-source instruments and techniques from the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem for improving cost-efficiency of monitoring.

• 

  • Performance
  • Time Series Database

  How to reduce expenses on monitoring: Swapping in VictoriaMetrics for Prometheus

  This blog post is the first in the series of the blog posts based on the talk about ‘How to reduce expenses on monitoring’, stackconf 2023. It is about open-source instruments and techniques from theVictoriaMetrics ecosystem for improving cost-efficiency of monitoring.

• 

  • Performance
  • Time Series Database

  Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: sync.Pool for CPU-bound operations

  This blog post is the fourth in the series of blog posts based on the talk about ‘Performance optimizations in Go’, GopherCon 2023. It is dedicated to various optimization techniques used in VictoriaMetrics for improving performance and resource usage.

• 

  • Performance
  • Time Series Database

  Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: Limiting concurrency

  This blog post is a third in the series of the blog posts based on the talk about ‘Performance optimizations in Go’, GopherCon 2023. It is dedicated to various optimization techniques used in VictoriaMetrics for improving performance and resource usage.