Featured Post
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.
The VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog
Author
- Alexander Marshalov
- Aliaksandr Valialkin
- Artem Navoiev
- Denys Holius
- Derek Foster
- Diana Todea
- Dmytro Kozlov
- Fred Navruzov
- Ivan Yatskevich
- Jan Sokol
- Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson
- Jose Gomez-Selles
- Marc Sherwood
- Mathias Palmersheim
- Nikolay Khramchikhin
- Pablo Fernandez
- Phuong Le
- Roman Khavronenko
- Vadim Alekseev
- Yurii Kravets
- Zakhar Bessarab
- Zhu Jiekun
New Capacity Tiers in VictoriaMetrics Cloud
VictoriaMetrics Cloud introduces a reworked set of Single-Node Capacity Tiers, built from fresh benchmarking to provide a clear progression of compute power. The new tiers offer significantly more CPU and memory, narrower gaps between sizes, and consistent pricing.
Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics
This year saw us blast past the 1 billion downloads on Docker, which is fueled by our customer-centric approach to software development and the introduction of new open source projects, such as our new database for traces. Read this blog post to learn more about our 2025 milestones.
AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack
Learn how to add observability to AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack. This guide explains how to instrument popular LLM frameworks and visualize metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana.
Discarding gRPC-Go: The Story Behind OTLP/gRPC Support in VictoriaTraces
Why did VictoriaTraces build gRPC support without using gRPC-Go? And what are the benefits of adopting a simple HTTP/2 server and easyproto?
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.
How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% and Scaled to 76 Million Time Series
VictoriaMetrics delivers a complete open-source observability stack, combining a highly scalable time series database with a powerful log management system. This streamlined, single-binary solution simplifies deployment while providing fast, cost-effective monitoring and logging at any scale.
Upcoming Conferences & Meetups: Where to Meet Our Team
We love connecting with our community in person, and the next few months are packed with opportunities to do just that. Our team will be attending (and in some cases, speaking at) several conferences and meetups. If you’re planning to be there, we’d love to meet you—here’s where you can find us.
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.
Creating a Sustainable Open Source Business Model - Introduction
Open source defies everything you’ve ever heard or learned about business before. This blog post is an introduction to how we’re creating a sustainable business model rooted in open source.
Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo
The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo has long served as a reference environment for exploring observability in distributed systems, but until now it shipped with only a Prometheus datasource. VictoriaMetrics forked the demo and extended it with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces, providing insights into VictoriaMetrics’ observability stack where metrics, logs, and traces flow into a unified backend.