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The most expensive half-hour of an incident.

Two teams run the same stack. One stays calm, one firefights. The difference isn’t the software. It’s knowledge.

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.

Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find (Tech Talk Companion)

Tech Talk #13: Mathias runs his house and four pets on Home Assistant, VictoriaMetrics, and vmanomaly. Then the AI picked the wrong model. Watch on demand.

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.

Open Source Is Good Marketing

Open source and commercial marketing often seem at odds, but open source often needs marketing, and open source itself is often good marketing. This blog post explains how open source supports our marketing goals and how we use marketing to support open source growth.

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.

Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

vmestimator is a new open-source tool that estimates metric cardinality in real time. It can alert to high-cardinality spikes before they slow queries and increase resource usage. Works with any Prometheus-compatible setups, Grafana, and vmalert