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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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Go Maps Explained: How Key-Value Pairs Are Actually Stored

Map is a built-in type that acts as a key-value storage. Unlike arrays where you’re stuck with keys as increasing indices like 0, 1, 2, and so on, with maps, the key can be any comparable type.

Go sync.Mutex: Normal and Starvation Mode

Mutex in Go has two main flows: Lock and Unlock and 2 modes: Normal and Starvation Mode. The state field of mutex is a 32-bit integer that represents the current state, it’s divided into multiple bits that encode various pieces of information about the mutex.

How Go Arrays Work and Get Tricky with For-Range

As always, we’ll start with the basics and then dig a bit deeper. Don’t worry, Go arrays get pretty interesting when you look at them from different angles. Arrays in Go are a lot like those in other programming languages. They’ve got a fixed size and store elements of the same type in contiguous memory locations.

Golang Defer: From Basic To Traps

The defer statement actually has 3 types: open-coded defer, heap-allocated defer, and stack-allocated. Each one has different performance and different scenarios where they’re best used, which is good to know if you want to optimize performance.

VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in H1 2024?

Explore the latest improvements in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (vmanomaly), including presets, new models, enhanced tuning, and better resource management

Vendoring, or go mod vendor: What Is It?

Vendoring is a different strategy as it keeps a copy of all your project’s dependencies directly within the project’s directory, rather than relying on an external cache.

Introduction to Managed Monitoring

Learn about the different types of managed monitoring services available on the market, and why you might consider picking one of them to manage your monitoring infrastructure.