VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup
Take a look at what we shipped in the first half of 2026 across VictoriaMetrics: metrics, logs, traces, and cloud,with improvements in performance, scalability, and usability.
VictoriaMetrics Observability Blog
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- Alexander Marshalov
- Aliaksandr Valialkin
- Artem Navoiev
- Denys Holius
- Derek Foster
- Diana Todea
- Dmytro Kozlov
- Fred Navruzov
- Ivan Yatskevich
- Jan Sokol
- Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson
- Jose Gomez-Selles
- Marc Sherwood
- Mathias Palmersheim
- Nikolay Khramchikhin
- Pablo Fernandez
- Phuong Le
- Roman Khavronenko
- Vadim Alekseev
- Yurii Kravets
- Zakhar Bessarab
- Zhu Jiekun
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Observability for LLM Apps and Agents: OpenLIT SDK + VictoriaMetrics observability stack
See practical examples on monitoring LLM applications and Agents with OpenLIT and VictoriaMetrics observability stack. See real examples of the deployment manifests, alerting rules and Grafana dashboard.
How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
A beginner-friendly tour of how VictoriaLogs stores your logs on disk: streams and daily partitions, immutable parts, blocks and columns, and the files inside a part (timestamps, values, bloom filters, column headers, and the two-level index) that let a query read only the bytes it needs.
VictoriaMetrics May 2026 Ecosystem Updates
May 2026 VictoriaMetrics release roundup: v1.144.0 brings 15 bug fixes and 9 UX improvements for reliability and observability, while v1.143.0 adds native Prometheus histogram ingestion support across vmagent, vmsingle, and vminsert. Also includes the first LTS release for VictoriaMetrics Operator.
How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent
Learn how Airbnb rebuilt its observability pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent to handle over 100 million samples per second, reduce cost by 10x, and simplify high-scale metrics aggregation.
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.
VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates
VictoriaMetrics April 2026 release round‑up: heads up about critical VictoriaMetrics bugfixes in v1.141.0–v1.142.0, and explore new VictoriaLogs features including Splunk ingestion and advanced LogsQL tooling.
What's new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (Q1 2026)
Q1 2026 brought incremental but important updates to VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: UI improvements, AI assistance inside the UI, a public traces playground, new false-positive reduction controls, and continued resource optimizations.
VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon Amsterdam: Community Highlights
VictoriaMetrics participated in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. The team delivered multiple talks covering platform design, Kubernetes observability, and distributed tracing optimization. A real-world case study from Miro showcased a cost-efficient, AZ-aware observability architecture built with VictoriaMetrics. With a 15-person team on site, the booth saw strong interest from users tackling scaling, cost, and performance challenges. The company also hosted its first community after-party, “After Deploy,” co-organized with Varnish and Shipfox, extending discussions beyond the conference.
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.