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Developer's Note: Research on Distributed Tracing, Comparing With Tempo and ClickHouse

by Zhu Jiekun on Jun 9, 2025

When it comes to observability, people often refer to its three pillars: metrics, tracing, and logging. At VictoriaMetrics, we already have solutions for metrics and logging. Throughout these years, we’ve heard a common question from the community: When will VictoriaTraces be released? If you are interested in this topic, then this blog post is for you. We’ll share the results of our research into distributed tracing and explore two key questions: Will there be a VictoriaTraces? And how competitive could it be?

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OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?

by Zhu Jiekun on Feb 5, 2025

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus 2.x, Prometheus 3.x, and vmagent are put together for comparison in scraping and pushing data to remote storage.

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How to reduce expenses on monitoring: Swapping in VictoriaMetrics for Prometheus

by Roman Khavronenko on Feb 13, 2024

This blog post is the first in the series of the blog posts based on the talk about ‘How to reduce expenses on monitoring’, stackconf 2023. It is about open-source instruments and techniques from theVictoriaMetrics ecosystem for improving cost-efficiency of monitoring.

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Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data

by Roman Khavronenko on Jan 16, 2023

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.

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Benchmarking Prometheus-compatible time series databases

by Roman Khavronenko on Jan 17, 2022

A Helm chart for pushing node_exporter metrics to Prometheus-compatible systems via remote_write protocol

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