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Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: Anomaly Types

This blog post series centers on Anomaly Detection (AD) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) within time-series data. In this second part, we explore the distinct anomaly types inherent to time-series and offer insights on how to tackle them effectively.

Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: An Introduction

This blog post series focuses on Anomaly Detection (AD) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) within the context of time-series data. The inaugural chapter lays the groundwork by introducing the role of AD in end-to-end observability systems, discussing domain-specific terminology, and addressing the challenges inherent to the time-series nature of the data.

Monitoring Kubernetes costs with OpenCost and VictoriaMetrics

Read how to set up Kubernetes costs monitoring with VictoriaMetrics.

Why we generate & collect logs: About the usability & cost of modern logging systems

This blog post looks at what logs are and why they matter, why logs are generated and collected as well as at the costs associated with that. It also provides details on why VictoriaLogs should be considered over similar solutions.

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

Rules backfilling via vmalert

Read how to use vmalert’s replay mode to retroactively evaluate recording and alerting rules with SLO objective as example.

Cardinality explorer

In monitoring, the term cardinality defines the number of unique time series stored in TSDB. The higher is cardinality, the more resources are usually required for metrics processing and querying. Let’s see how Cardinality explorer can help us here.

VictoriaMetrics Monitoring

VictoriaMetrics is a monitoring solution. It was designed to collect and process telemetry from many systems, provide a retrospective view, and forecast metrics for capacity planning. But what about monitoring VictoriaMetrics itself?