Database

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.

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!

This article walks through how data flows from collection to storage, explaining how vmstorage processes incoming metrics, assigns unique IDs to time series, 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.

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.

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.

We’re happy to announce VictoriaMetrics Cloud, a hosted monitoring platform and managed service for metrics that allows organizations to monitor and store large amounts of time-series data, without having to run the underlying infrastructure.

Read about our Q2 2024 achievements, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, the latest news on VictoriaLogs, and more!

Read this momentum release to learn more about VictoriaMetrics achieving 320% growth in 2023 & hitting 268 million downloads of our open source time series database and monitoring solution.

Read about our Q2 achievements in 2023, the roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, the launch of VictoriaLogs, and more!

This ‘VictoriaMetrics 2022 Momentum Milestones’ blog post provides a summary of this year’s main achievements with our top features, blogs and talks.