The VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

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

Releasing Graphite Query Language in Open Source VictoriaMetrics

We are releasing Graphite Query Language in open source VictoriaMetrics starting with VictoriaMetrics v1.90 - i.e. we’re open sourcing Graphite Query Language in VictoriaMetrics.

Q1 Roadmap Review & Q2 2023 Look Ahead

Read about our early achievements in 2023, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, initial details on the upcoming VictoriaLogs, as well as where to find our team in the coming weeks.

24th of February 2023 - Statement

War is a crime, and we unequivocally condemn Russia’s actions - please read our full statement below. We will stick to these principles until Ukraine achieves victory and beyond

VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): Commitment, Current and Next LTS Versions

Overview of LTS releases, commitment from the VictoriaMetrics team about them, and migration from one LTS to another

Rules backfilling via vmalert

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

Monitoring the Universe & Beyond: Our 2022 in Review

This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2022 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks.

Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data

One of the latest benchmarks we made was ‘VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second’. While the fact of such scale for VictoriaMetrics is noteworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that load is usually overlooked. In this blog post I’ll explain in more details the challenge of running such benchmarks.