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Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics

This year saw us blast past the 1 billion downloads on Docker, which is fueled by our customer-centric approach to software development and the introduction of new open source projects, such as our new database for traces. Read this blog post to learn more about our 2025 milestones.

AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack

Learn how to add observability to AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack. This guide explains how to instrument popular LLM frameworks and visualize metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025? From new region in Asia to proactive alerts

Discover the latest updates in VictoriaMetrics Cloud that make observability smoother, smarter, and more secure.

Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo

The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop demo has long served as a reference environment for exploring observability in distributed systems, but until now it shipped with only a Prometheus datasource. VictoriaMetrics forked the demo and extended it with VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces, providing insights into VictoriaMetrics’ observability stack where metrics, logs, and traces flow into a unified backend.

Alerting Best Practices

Proper alerting is an art. It is all about foreseeing bad scenarios before they happen, so you can prepare for them. In this article, we go through practical recommendations of approaching the alerting to reduce alerting fatigue and avoid false positives.

MCP Server Integration & Much More: What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2025

This post recaps the latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud updates, including enhanced multi-tenancy support for Access Tokens, exciting new ways to interact with VictoriaMetrics Cloud through the MCP Server integration and code-first libraries. We’re also continuing our journey of improving our docs with a fresh approach to discovering and deploying integrations.

FIPS 140-3 Compatible Builds for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise Components

VictoriaMetrics Enterprise now offers FIPS 140-3 compatible builds, leveraging the BoringCrypto module. This enables organizations in regulated sectors, such as the federal government, finance, and healthcare, to meet stringent cryptographic requirements using VictoriaMetrics.

Integrations made easy with VictoriaMetrics Cloud

Discover the latest improvements to integrations in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, including interactive guides, streamlined Kubernetes monitoring, and our commitment to full-stack observability without vendor lock-in.

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.