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VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup

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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.

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How vmagent Collects and Ships Metrics Fast with Aggregation, Deduplication, and More

VictoriaMetrics agent, or vmagent, is a lightweight tool designed to gather metrics from a number of different sources. Once it pulls in all those metrics, vmagent lets you ‘design’ them (through ‘relabeling’) or filter them down (doing things like reducing cardinality, stream aggregation, deduplication, and so on) before shipping them off to wherever you want to store them.

VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs

We’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution: VictoriaLogs. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerized environments such as Kubernetes.

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.

Go Runtime Finalizer and Keep Alive

Go’s runtime package provides two intriguing features: Finalizers and KeepAlive, which help manage object lifecycle in unique ways. Finalizers let you attach cleanup functions to objects that run when they’re garbage collected. Meanwhile, KeepAlive serves as a tool to prevent premature object collection, especially when dealing with resources that need to stay alive longer than the compiler might expect.

Go sync.Once is Simple... Does It Really?

The sync.Once is probably the easiest sync primitive to use, but there’s more under the hood than you might think. It’s also a good opportunity to understand how it works by juggling both atomic operations and mutexes.

Meet Our Team at KubeCon North America 2024

Come say hello at booth R17 for KubeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, VictoriaMetrics Enterprise, anomaly detection capabilities, and more

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.

Go I/O Closer, Seeker, WriterTo, and ReaderFrom

Still, we haven’t really covered some other important interfaces, like Closer, Seeker, and a few others. And honestly, if you’re learning Go, you probably don’t want to leave those in the blind spot.

Go I/O Readers, Writers, and Data in Motion

The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces are probably some of the most common tools. Today, we’re kicking off the I/O series by taking a look at a lot of these readers and writers, and pointing out some common mistakes — like using io.ReadAll in ways that can backfire.

Go sync.Map: The Right Tool for the Right Job

Go’s sync.Map isn’t a magic bullet for all concurrent map needs. It’s got some good tricks up its sleeve, like handling reads without locking, but it’s not always the best choice. This article dives into how sync.Map works under the hood, from its two-map system to the bottom line of expunged entries.