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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.

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.

With 36M+ Downloads, VictoriaMetrics Skyrockets to New Heights: 2021 in Review

This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2021 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks