Monitoring
VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q1 2025?
This post recaps the latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud updates, including new organization management features, OpenTelemetry integration, a powerful Explore tab, and expanded API capabilities, making your monitoring experience even more seamless and efficient.
Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later!
We believe microservices shouldn’t be the default and that companies should start with monoliths until reality actually demands they scale and shift from one node to a cluster of nodes. As a result, we offer clustering on an open source basis because we want to support realistic growth. Read on for details!
Prometheus Alerting 101: Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager
Recording rules can transform complex PromQL queries into pre-computed metrics, eliminating repeated calculation overhead. When organized in groups, these alerting and recording rules can be precisely scheduled to run at specific times like 01:30, 02:30, and even execute in parallel for maximum efficiency.
Heading to London: Meet Our Team at KubeCon Europe 2025
Say hello at booth #N503 for KubeCon Europe 2025 in London, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, VictoriaMetrics, anomaly detection capabilities, and more.
Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics
The article explains vmselect’s core functionalities: concurrent request processing, query parsing and validation, data fetching and merging from vmstorage nodes, and memory-efficient result caching.
Meet Our Team at Scale 22x
Say hello at booth #313 for SCaLE 22x in Pasadena, meet our team, and find out about the latest updates on our new VictoriaLogs solution, the latest VictoriaMetrics updates and more.
Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained
When evaluating, instant vectors provide current snapshots, while range vectors give you multiple values over a period of time. But how do they work?
Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries
Metrics come in different types: counters that only increase, gauges that fluctuate, histograms that show value distributions, and summaries that pre-calculate statistics.
300%+ Growth in 2024: Join Our Team in 2025!
When we ended 2024 with continued growth (300+%) both in terms of open source adoption and enterprise business we thought: We’re going to need some more help in 2025!
FOSDEM 2025 recap
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a huge, free, gathering for open-source software enthusiasts that happens every February in Brussels, Belgium. It’s a non-profit event put together by the community, and it’s one of the biggest of its kind. See more in our recap!