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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.

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 release round‑up: heads up about critical VictoriaMetrics bugfixes in v1.141.0–v1.142.0, and explore new VictoriaLogs features including Splunk ingestion and advanced LogsQL tooling.

VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon Amsterdam: Community Highlights

VictoriaMetrics participated in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. The team delivered multiple talks covering platform design, Kubernetes observability, and distributed tracing optimization. A real-world case study from Miro showcased a cost-efficient, AZ-aware observability architecture built with VictoriaMetrics. With a 15-person team on site, the booth saw strong interest from users tackling scaling, cost, and performance challenges. The company also hosted its first community after-party, “After Deploy,” co-organized with Varnish and Shipfox, extending discussions beyond the conference.

VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent

A developer-focused recap of VictoriaMetrics’ participation at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France and CfgMgmtCamp, highlighting open source observability, community feedback and real-world engineering perspectives.

Open Source Software Licenses vs Revenue Growth Rates

A software license change may have a short term impact on revenue, but the long-term damage can be consequential and take time to fix. Read our CTO’s take on open source software licenses vs revenue growth rates.

The BSL is a short-term fix: Why we choose open source

In this blog post, we’ll explain the controversy over the BSL, and why we believe remaining open source helps businesses remain sustainable for the long-term.

Q1/2022 Release Roundup: Announcing VictoriaMetrics v1.76 & More

The VictoriaMetrics v1.76 release headlines our first VictoriaMetrics releases roundup blog post, which summarises all the releases we published in the first quarter of 2022; and includes feature highlights such as multi-level downsampling (the most wanted Vicky feature in 2021).

Vicky User Community 2021: Thank You for the Contributions!

In this post, we want to say “Thank you!” to all the people who helped VictoriaMetrics become what it is today and that we appreciate their contributions via this overview of the most interesting user blog posts of the year and a shortlist of top community contributors.