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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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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.

VictoriaMetrics Connects with the Open Source Community at LinuxFest Northwest 2025

We have just got back from an incredible weekend representing VictoriaMetrics at LinuxFest Northwest 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA! 🌲🏔️

Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns

Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…

VictoriaLogs: Gaps, Gains & Growth

In our fourth VictoriaMetrics Tech Talks episode, we wrapped up our deep dive into logs and summarized the key takeaways for effective log management. This installment concluded our log series, featuring Co-founder and CTO Alex who joined to share some exciting news and updates from VictoriaMetrics.