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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2026? Transparent Credits, Navigation Improvements, and a New Path for Cluster Tiers

Q2 2026 brought transparent credits reporting for prepaid billing, many navigation improvements across the console, progress on SOC 2, and a first look at the compute-based model that will reshape how VictoriaMetrics Cluster is sized and priced.

GPU Observability with the OpenLIT Collector and the VictoriaMetrics observability stack

Monitor NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs with the OpenLIT OpenTelemetry GPU Collector and the VictoriaMetrics stack: eBPF CUDA kernel tracing, OTel hardware semantic conventions, MetricsQL queries, recording rules, and alerts.

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.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026? Logs, MCP Server, Better Alerting, and... a Secret Project

Q1 2026 brought VictoriaLogs GA, a hosted MCP Server, a brand new cost calculator, a major expansion of alerting rule presets with a new editor, infrastructure improvements, notifications via generic webhooks and a few things we are cooking.

Observability Lessons From OpenAI

OpenAI applies observability to autonomous AI agents using the VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry. Learn to build your own local setup with metrics, logs, and traces that help LLMs test, benchmark, and iterate autonomously.

Benchmarking Kubernetes Log Collectors: vlagent, Vector, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry Collector, and more

We benchmarked vlagent, Vector, Fluent Bit, Filebeat, Fluentd, Promtail, Grafana Alloy, and OpenTelemetry Collector on throughput, resource usage, and delivery correctness - and found correctness issues that most benchmarks overlook.

VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Fast, Cost-Effective Log Management is Here

Announcing VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: fast, cost-effective log management with native OpenTelemetry support, LogsQL for powerful analysis, and integrations with Grafana and Perses for complete observability monitoring, is the best option to save costs when compared to other alternatives like ElasticSearch or Datadog.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q4 2025? New tiers, more deployment options, IaC and alerting rules.

In the last quarter of 2025, VictoriaMetrics Cloud brings many great features: New powerful Capacity Tiers, the expansion to the us-east-1 (N.Virginia) AWS region in the US, new Notification Groups, a Terraform provider to complete your IaC, 9 brand new Alerting Rule Integrations and much more.