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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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Alerting Best Practices

Proper alerting is an art. It is all about foreseeing bad scenarios before they happen, so you can prepare for them. In this article, we go through practical recommendations of approaching the alerting to reduce alerting fatigue and avoid false positives.

vmanomaly Deep Dive: Smarter Alerting with AI (Tech Talk Companion)

Tech Talk: In this post, we explore vmanomaly through the eyes of its creators. Learn how this AI-powered alerting system helps cut through noise, avoid static rule spaghetti, and deliver actionable insights directly from your monitoring data.

VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams

VictoriaLogs uses three core concepts: message, time, and stream fields to structure log data. Too few streams create fat streams that are slow to query, while too many unique stream combinations create high cardinality problems…

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?