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VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): H2 2025 Update
As we’re half-way through the year, we’d like to take this opportunity to provide an update on the most recent changes in our Long-Term Support (LTS) releases.
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FIPS 140-3 Compatible Builds for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise Components
VictoriaMetrics Enterprise now offers FIPS 140-3 compatible builds, leveraging the BoringCrypto module. This enables organizations in regulated sectors, such as the federal government, finance, and healthcare, to meet stringent cryptographic requirements using VictoriaMetrics.
VictoriaLogs Unleashed: Cluster Version Now Available for Exceptional, Linear Scaling
We’re thrilled to announce the release of the VictoriaLogs Cluster version – one of the most requested and anticipated updates from our user community. If you’ve been pushing the boundaries of vertical scaling, the solution for horizontal scalability is now here.
Integrations made easy with VictoriaMetrics Cloud
Discover the latest improvements to integrations in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, including interactive guides, streamlined Kubernetes monitoring, and our commitment to full-stack observability without vendor lock-in.
Developer's Note: Research on Distributed Tracing, Comparing With Tempo and ClickHouse
When it comes to observability, people often refer to its three pillars: metrics, tracing, and logging. At VictoriaMetrics, we already have solutions for metrics and logging. Throughout these years, we’ve heard a common question from the community: When will VictoriaTraces be released? If you are interested in this topic, then this blog post is for you. We’ll share the results of our research into distributed tracing and explore two key questions: Will there be a VictoriaTraces? And how competitive could it be?
vmagent: Key Features Explained in Under 15 Minutes
vmagent is a lightweight agent for collecting and forwarding metrics to remote storage. It supports relabeling, sharding, replication, aggregation, deduplication, and disk buffering to ensure reliable and efficient metric delivery.
Go synctest: Solving Flaky Tests
Traditional concurrent Go tests can be flaky due to non-deterministic scheduler behavior and timing. Go 1.24’s experimental synctest feature provides deterministic testing by running goroutines in isolated ‘bubbles’ where a synthetic clock only advances when all internally managed goroutines are durably blocked.
vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring (Tech Talk Companion)
Tech Talk: vmalert is an incredibly useful feature, that only gets better the more that you know about how to best utilize it. Here we cover vmalert in more depth and share some golden vmalert nuggets.
Celebrating 14K Stars on GitHub: Spring Update
Seeing that VictoriaMetrics products are this popular with engineers worldwide is fantastic: Just a little over a year ago, we hit 10K stars, and with the adoption of VictoriaLogs, the star count now went beyond 14K. Read about most recent achievements in this blog post.
vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring
Turn alerts into action, not noise. Our May 22nd Tech Talk (10 AM PDT) dives into vmalert best practices. Learn to configure, write effective rules, and optimize your VictoriaMetrics alerting strategy. Don’t miss out!
VictoriaMetrics Components: Getting Started
VictoriaMetrics is a fast, scalable monitoring system made of modular components like vminsert, vmstorage, and vmselect. It supports both single-node and clustered setups, along with tools for backup, restore, alerting, access control, and data migration. Data can be ingested, stored, queried, backed up, and restored with high performance and minimal resource use.