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vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring

by Marc Sherwood on May 15, 2025

Turn alerts into action, not noise. Our May 22nd Tech Talk (10 AM PDT) dives into vmalert best practices. Learn to configure, write effective rules, and optimize your VictoriaMetrics alerting strategy. Don’t miss out!

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VictoriaMetrics Components: Getting Started

by Phuong Le on May 9, 2025

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, scalable monitoring system made of modular components like vminsert, vmstorage, and vmselect. It supports both single-node and clustered setups, along with tools for backup, restore, alerting, access control, and data migration. Data can be ingested, stored, queried, backed up, and restored with high performance and minimal resource use.

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VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q1 2025?

by Jose Gomez-Selles on Apr 25, 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.

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Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later!

by Roman Khavronenko on Apr 18, 2025

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!

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Prometheus Alerting 101: Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager

by Phuong Le on Mar 18, 2025

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.

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Heading to London: Meet Our Team at KubeCon Europe 2025

by Gonzalo García Labat on Mar 11, 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.

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Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics

by Phuong Le on Mar 7, 2025

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.

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Meet Our Team at Scale 22x

by Gonzalo García Labat on Mar 6, 2025

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.

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Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained

by Phuong Le on Feb 21, 2025

When evaluating, instant vectors provide current snapshots, while range vectors give you multiple values over a period of time. But how do they work?

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Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries

by Phuong Le on Feb 21, 2025

Metrics come in different types: counters that only increase, gauges that fluctuate, histograms that show value distributions, and summaries that pre-calculate statistics.

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