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Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

vmestimator is a new open-source tool that estimates metric cardinality in real time. It can alert to high-cardinality spikes before they slow queries and increase resource usage. Works with any Prometheus-compatible setups, Grafana, and vmalert

Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads

Discover multi-tier observability architecture with VictoriaMetrics OSS. Learn how to isolate default, high-cardinality, and business-critical workloads into separate tiers with optimized retention periods, ingestion resolution, cardinality limits, alerting policies, and cost controls.

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.

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!

How ilert Can Help Enhance Your Monitoring With Its VictoriaMetrics Integration

The integration of VictoriaMetrics with ilert creates a seamless environment where real-time metrics are transformed into actionable alerts. Read this joint article for the details

VictoriaMetrics Machine Learning takes monitoring to the next level

Announcing VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection solution, which harnesses machine learning to make database alerts more relevant, accurate and actionable for enterprise customers.

Never-firing alerts: What they are and how to deal with them

Read how vmalert helps to find alerting rules which don’t match any time series. Such rules will never fire and only trick users with a false sense of protection.