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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

by Aliaksandr Valialkin on Sep 11, 2024

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.

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Community Question: High Churn Rate Without New Time Series?

by Zhu Jiekun on Sep 5, 2024

My VictoriaMetrics cluster has a very high churn rate at 0:00 every day. However, when I enable -logNewSeries, I find that these ’new’ time series were actually seen before. Why is this happening?

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Troubleshooting Time Series Databases: Where Did My Metrics Go?

by Zhu Jiekun on Aug 9, 2024

I have already recorded metrics in the application, why can’t I see my metrics on Grafana?

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Monitoring Proxmox VE via VictoriaMetrics Cloud

by Mathias Palmersheim / Denys Holius on Jun 19, 2024

Monitoring Proxmox hypervisor via VictoriaMetrics and Proxmox’s built-in metric server

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How to reduce expenses on monitoring: be smarter about data

by Roman Khavronenko on Jun 6, 2024

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.

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

by Roman Khavronenko on Feb 13, 2024

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.

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

by Roman Khavronenko / Aliaksandr Valialkin on Dec 8, 2023

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.

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Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: Limiting concurrency

by Roman Khavronenko / Aliaksandr Valialkin on Nov 24, 2023

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.

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Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: function caching

by Roman Khavronenko / Aliaksandr Valialkin on Nov 17, 2023

This blog post is a second 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.

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Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: strings interning

by Roman Khavronenko / Aliaksandr Valialkin on Nov 7, 2023

This blog post is a first 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.

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