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VictoriaMetrics 2025 Developer Experience: A Year in Review

In 2025, VictoriaMetrics deepened its commitment to open source, community, and developer experience across the global cloud-native ecosystem. This year-in-review reflects on key observability themes, global engagement, OpenTelemetry contributions, and the people and conversations that shaped the year.

AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack

Learn how to add observability to AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack. This guide explains how to instrument popular LLM frameworks and visualize metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana.

Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo

The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo has long served as a reference environment for exploring observability in distributed systems, but until now it shipped with only a Prometheus datasource. VictoriaMetrics forked the demo and extended it with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces, providing insights into VictoriaMetrics’ observability stack where metrics, logs, and traces flow into a unified backend.

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.

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!

VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in Q3 2024?

Explore the latest improvements in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (vmanomaly), including optimizations, online models, multitenantcy and mTLS support.

Monitoring Azure AKS & Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics

Learn how to monitor Azure AKS and Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics. This blog post covers the setup process for environments with high security requirements and how to monitor them with VictoriaMetrics.

The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open source.