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How vmstorage Handles Data Ingestion From vminsert

This article explains how vmstorage processes incoming metrics, assigns unique IDs to timeseries, and organizes everything into different types of storage parts. The whole system is pretty clever - it uses in-memory buffers for speed, smart compression to save space, and has various watchdogs keeping an eye on things like disk space and data retention.

When Metrics Meet vminsert: A Data-Delivery Story

vminsert acts as a gateway for incoming monitoring data. It receives data in different formats, processes it by parsing and adjusting labels, then uses memory buffers to send this data to storage nodes. It’s smart enough to always send the same type of data to the same storage node and can redirect data if a node isn’t working properly.

VictoriaMetrics helps IHI Terrasun Win Big in Vegas on $1.2B Clean Energy Project

We’re happy to announce that VictoriaMetrics and IHI Terrasun Solutions, a leading energy storage system integrator, have partnered on one of North America’s largest clean energy projects!

How vmagent Collects and Ships Metrics Fast with Aggregation, Deduplication, and More

VictoriaMetrics agent, or vmagent, is a lightweight tool designed to gather metrics from a number of different sources. Once it pulls in all those metrics, vmagent lets you ‘design’ them (through ‘relabeling’) or filter them down (doing things like reducing cardinality, stream aggregation, deduplication, and so on) before shipping them off to wherever you want to store them.

Meet Our Team at KubeCon North America 2024

Come say hello at booth R17 for KubeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, VictoriaMetrics Enterprise, anomaly detection capabilities, and more

Monitoring Azure AKS & Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics

Learn how to monitor Azure AKS and Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics. This blog post covers the setup process for environments with high security requirements and how to monitor them with VictoriaMetrics.

The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open source.

Open Source Software Licenses vs Revenue Growth Rates

A software license change may have a short term impact on revenue, but the long-term damage can be consequential and take time to fix. Read our CTO’s take on open source software licenses vs revenue growth rates.