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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.

VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates

March 2026 VictoriaMetrics Stack releases deliver Grafana Cardinality Explorer, VMUI pagination, JWT auth enhancements, log UI sidebar, and Kubernetes log enrichment for scalable observability. Upgrade now for better UI usability, query performance, and production-ready monitoring workflows.

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.

VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates

February 2026 updates deliver new LTS support, VMUI memory insights, queue alerts, jsonline output, resizable Web UI tables, and automatic snapshot expiry across the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack.

VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent

A developer-focused recap of VictoriaMetrics’ participation at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France and CfgMgmtCamp, highlighting open source observability, community feedback and real-world engineering perspectives.

VictoriaMetrics January 2026 Ecosystem Updates

January 2026 updates deliver quality of life improvements, performance optimizations, and tighter Kubernetes integration across the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack.

Our latest updates across the VictoriaMetrics Observability ecosystem

The VictoriaMetrics ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly, and the latest updates bring meaningful improvements across metrics, logs, and traces. Read the announcement for details.

Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics

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.

How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% and Scaled to 76 Million Time Series

VictoriaMetrics delivers a complete open-source observability stack, combining a highly scalable time series database with a powerful log management system. This streamlined, single-binary solution simplifies deployment while providing fast, cost-effective monitoring and logging at any scale.