Never-firing alerts: What they are and how to deal with them
Read how vmalert helps to find alerting rules which don’t match any time series. Such rules will never fire and only trick users with a false sense of protection.
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How to use VictoriaMetrics for monitoring with Netdata Agent
How to set up VictoriaMetrics as long-term storage for Netdata Agent metrics
Releasing Graphite Query Language in Open Source VictoriaMetrics
We are releasing Graphite Query Language in open source VictoriaMetrics starting with VictoriaMetrics v1.90 - i.e. we’re open sourcing Graphite Query Language in VictoriaMetrics.
Q1 Roadmap Review & Q2 2023 Look Ahead
Read about our early achievements in 2023, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, initial details on the upcoming VictoriaLogs, as well as where to find our team in the coming weeks.
Rules backfilling via vmalert
Read how to use vmalert’s replay mode to retroactively evaluate recording and alerting rules with SLO objective as example.
Monitoring the Universe & Beyond: Our 2022 in Review
This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2022 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks.
Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data
One of the latest benchmarks we made was ‘VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second’. While the fact of such scale for VictoriaMetrics is noteworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that load is usually overlooked. In this blog post I’ll explain in more details the challenge of running such benchmarks.
Latest updates about backup components of VictoriaMetrics
An overview of the latest features added to VictoriaMetrics backup components.
Meet the VictoriaMetrics team at KubeCon NA, OSMC & OSA Con 2022
We’re participating in three conferences until the end of the year as sponsors and speakers: KubeCon NA, OSMC & OSA Con 2022. This blog outlines our participation at each one of them with details on how to meet us or listen to our talks.
Cardinality explorer
In monitoring, the term cardinality defines the number of unique time series stored in TSDB. The higher is cardinality, the more resources are usually required for metrics processing and querying. Let’s see how Cardinality explorer can help us here.