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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.

Vibe coding tools observability with VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry

Learn how to add observability to Vibe Coding Tools using OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack. This guide explains how to configure popular vibe coding tools to export their metrics telemetry and get insights about your vibe coding sessions.

Spotify’s performance & control across large monitoring environments with VictoriaMetrics

Spotify needed to replace its legacy in-house time series database to overcome stability and performance limitations, which would bring about query delays and timeouts. The Spotify observability team chose VictoriaMetrics to support efficient metric ingestion, querying, and alerting at scale.

New Capacity Tiers in VictoriaMetrics Cloud

VictoriaMetrics Cloud introduces a reworked set of Single-Node Capacity Tiers, built from fresh benchmarking to provide a clear progression of compute power. The new tiers offer significantly more CPU and memory, narrower gaps between sizes, and consistent pricing.