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VictoriaMetrics August 2026 Ecosystem Updates

The VictoriaMetrics team shipped two core releases with important security fixes. The vmanomaly team shipped two updates with improved scaling and more efficient models. Plus, Tech Talks are back, this time demoing AI-assisted incident troubleshooting.

The Life of a Metric

Follow a single metric through its whole life inside VictoriaMetrics: born as a counter in your process, exported over the wire, given an identity and an inverted-index entry, written through an LSM tree, compressed into columnar blocks on disk, read back by a rate() query, downsampled as it ages, and finally deleted when retention runs out.

Observability's Sixth Sense: Grounding Anomaly Detection in Reality

Learn how VictoriaMetrics combines machine learning, MCP, and natural-language workflows to simplify observability with anomaly detection and reduce operational overhead.

What's new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (Q2 2026)

The Q2 2026 vmanomaly update introduces Temporal Envelope, a redesigned UI, faster online-model execution, and an AI-assisted workflow that turns natural-language monitoring goals into tested configurations and alerting rules.

VictoriaMetrics July 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics July updates bring a new LTS release, vmestimator, and a set of improvements across the stack that make operations simpler and observability more practical.

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.

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.

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.