The VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog

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.

Latest updates about backup components of VictoriaMetrics

An overview of the latest features added to VictoriaMetrics backup components.

Meet the VictoriaMetrics team at KubeCon NA, OSMC & OSA Con 2022

We’re participating in three conferences until the end of the year as sponsors and speakers: KubeCon NA, OSMC & OSA Con 2022. This blog outlines our participation at each one of them with details on how to meet us or listen to our talks.

Cardinality explorer

In monitoring, the term cardinality defines the number of unique time series stored in TSDB. The higher is cardinality, the more resources are usually required for metrics processing and querying. Let’s see how Cardinality explorer can help us here.

VictoriaMetrics Monitoring

VictoriaMetrics is a monitoring solution. It was designed to collect and process telemetry from many systems, provide a retrospective view, and forecast metrics for capacity planning. But what about monitoring VictoriaMetrics itself?

How to Decommission a vmstorage Node from a VictoriaMetrics Cluster

An article about how to remove a storage node from a VictoriaMetrics cluster gracefully

vmagent High-Availability Examples

Three examples of vmagent high-availability setup for pull and push models

Status Update: Our Team Is Safe and VictoriaMetrics Continues Full Speed Ahead

This is a status update following the statement we made on February 28th 2022 with regards to the war on Ukraine. Our team is safe, our business continues to grow and we’re looking forward to the continued work with our customers and users.