In 2025, VictoriaMetrics deepened its commitment to open source, community, and developer experience across the global cloud-native ecosystem. This year-in-review reflects on key observability themes, global engagement, OpenTelemetry contributions, and the people and conversations that shaped the year.
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.
Becoming a Red Hat OpenShift Certified Operator brings portability and scalability benefits on the leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
The VictoriaMetrics ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly, and the latest updates bring meaningful improvements across metrics, logs, and traces. Read the announcement for details.
This year saw us blast past the 1 billion downloads on Docker, which is fueled by our customer-centric approach to software development and the introduction of new open source projects, such as our new database for traces. Read this blog post to learn more about our 2025 milestones.
Learn how to add observability to AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack. This guide explains how to instrument popular LLM frameworks and visualize metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana.
Why did VictoriaTraces build gRPC support without using gRPC-Go? And what are the benefits of adopting a simple HTTP/2 server and easyproto?
Discover the latest updates in VictoriaMetrics Cloud that make observability smoother, smarter, and more secure.
The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo has long served as a reference environment for exploring observability in distributed systems, but until now it shipped with only a Prometheus datasource. VictoriaMetrics forked the demo and extended it with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces, providing insights into VictoriaMetrics’ observability stack where metrics, logs, and traces flow into a unified backend.
Proper alerting is an art. It is all about foreseeing bad scenarios before they happen, so you can prepare for them. In this article, we go through practical recommendations of approaching the alerting to reduce alerting fatigue and avoid false positives.