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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025? From new region in Asia to proactive alerts
Discover the latest updates in VictoriaMetrics Cloud that make observability smoother, smarter, and more secure.
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Monotonic and Wall Clock Time in the Go time package
Operating systems expose a wall clock that can leap or slew with NTP and a monotonic clock that never runs backward. In Go, only time.Now (might) carries both readings, while values from time.Parse, time.Date, etc., are wall-clock-only—so naïve equality checks or time.Since on those can mislead when the system clock shifts.
Hello Singapore! VictoriaMetrics Cloud Expands to Asia Pacific
We’re excited to announce a new deployment region for VictoriaMetrics Cloud in ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), making it easier for users in Asia Pacific to run low-latency VictoriaMetrics Cloud stacks closer to home.
MCP Server Integration & Much More: What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2025
This post recaps the latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud updates, including enhanced multi-tenancy support for Access Tokens, exciting new ways to interact with VictoriaMetrics Cloud through the MCP Server integration and code-first libraries. We’re also continuing our journey of improving our docs with a fresh approach to discovering and deploying integrations.
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.