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How vmstorage Turns Raw Metrics into Organized History
This article walks through how data flows from collection to storage, explaining how vmstorage processes incoming metrics, assigns unique IDs to time series, and organizes everything into different types of storage parts. The whole system is pretty clever - it uses in-memory buffers for speed, smart compression to save space, and has various watchdogs keeping an eye on things like disk space and data retention.
How vmagent Collects and Ships Metrics Fast with Aggregation, Deduplication, and More
VictoriaMetrics agent, or vmagent, is a lightweight tool designed to gather metrics from a number of different sources. Once it pulls in all those metrics, vmagent lets you ‘design’ them (through ‘relabeling’) or filter them down (doing things like reducing cardinality, stream aggregation, deduplication, and so on) before shipping them off to wherever you want to store them.
The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open source.
VictoriaMetrics Cloud reduces monitoring costs by 5x
We’re happy to announce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, a hosted monitoring platform and managed service for metrics that allows organizations to monitor and store large amounts of time-series data, without having to run the underlying infrastructure.
Q2 2024 Round Up: VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs Updates
Read about our Q2 2024 achievements, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, the latest news on VictoriaLogs, and more!
Momentum: Announcing 268 Million Downloads & 320% Growth in 2023
Read this momentum release to learn more about VictoriaMetrics achieving 320% growth in 2023 & hitting 268 million downloads of our open source time series database and monitoring solution.
Q2 Round Up: Roadmap Review & Q3 2023 Look Ahead
Read about our Q2 achievements in 2023, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, the launch of VictoriaLogs, and more!
Monitoring the Universe & Beyond: Our 2022 in Review
This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2022 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks.
vmagent High-Availability Examples
Three examples of vmagent high-availability setup for pull and push models
What’s new in VictoriaMetrics 2021?
With more than 20 new releases of VictoriaMetrics published during 2021, a features roundup seemed appropriate. This blog walks you through the key VM features released in 2021.